From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
pioneer695 <pioneer695@protonmail.com>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: make cleandocs issue: rm -rf /output when obj not defined
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:25:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YP/tLnwb86RTTiRf@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e93f77f-79a5-7dc9-287e-a48865afd133@infradead.org>
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 01:53:30PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/25/21 1:11 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > pioneer695 <pioneer695@protonmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> In an attempt to get some readable documentation I cloned the git repository
> >> to check how the PDF format is.
> >>
> >> Entered Documentation and proceeded with:
> >>
> >> make pdfdocs
>
> Hi,
> I'm curious about this part above. Are you saying that you did:
>
> cd Documentation
> make pdfdocs
>
> I've never tried that and don't expect it to be done that way.
>
> I do (from the top of the kernel source tree):
>
> make pdfdocs
> or
> make htmldocs
>
> with no problems, other than I may not have all of the latex
> tools installed.
Perhaps we should rename Documentation/Makefile to Documentation/Kbuild
to prevent this confusion?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-24 19:56 make cleandocs issue: rm -rf /output when obj not defined pioneer695
2021-07-25 20:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-07-25 20:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-27 11:25 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-08-17 21:23 ` pioneer695
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