From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:37:45 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Building Manual Errors In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130912183745.64503913@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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