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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Building Manual Errors
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:37:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130912183745.64503913@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF56171A80.616C14AA-ON86257BE4.0059D6AD-86257BE4.005A710F@rockwellcollins.com>

Dear Ryan Barnett,

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:27:51 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> > Samuel: shouldn't we check the dependencies for building the manual
> > before someone attemps to do that? On my Linux Mint system
> > (=Ubuntu-based) I had to install asciidoc (which pulled in a lot of
> > tex deps) and w3m.
> 
> One I idea I had to solve these dependancies issues between specific
> versions and packages for all the different distro's is to add all 
> of the packages that are needed for building manual or any other 
> buildroot maintenance script (stuff that is in support/scripts) to
> buildroot as host packages and then put together a 
> buildroot_maintenance_defconfig that will build all of the packages
> need for the host system to run this scripts. Let me know what 
> you think about that and we can maybe continue this discussion 
> in a different thread. 

My understanding is that asciidoc requires a very large number of TeX /
LaTeX dependencies which I really don't think we want to package in
Buildroot, so I believe doing this is not such a good idea.

Normal users shouldn't need to build the manual, since it's available
online for reading. Only developers will care about this, and I believe
installing asciidoc is a reasonable requirement for developers.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 23:49 [Buildroot] Building Manual Errors rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com
2013-09-11  9:14 ` Samuel Martin
2013-09-11 11:13   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-09-11 16:25   ` Ryan Barnett
2013-09-12 16:18 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-12 16:27   ` Ryan Barnett
2013-09-12 16:37     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-12 16:51       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-12 16:56         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-12 17:02           ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-12 17:54             ` Ryan Barnett
2013-09-19 15:03 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-19 15:12   ` Ryan Barnett

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