From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938560AbcHJUHi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:07:38 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49453 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933745AbcHJUHf (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:07:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:07:33 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Jani Nikula Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Daniel Vetter , Jonathan Corbet , Markus Heiser Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] Documentation: switch to pdflatex for pdf generation Message-ID: <20160810200733.GQ3296@wotan.suse.de> References: <3057f0cf1b84ee0d89da0271c40fade3e1697154.1470844185.git.jani.nikula@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3057f0cf1b84ee0d89da0271c40fade3e1697154.1470844185.git.jani.nikula@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:54:08PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > Looks like rst2pdf is not robust enough, especially for large documents. > > Use recursive make on the Sphinx generated makefile to convert latex to > pdf. The ugly detail is that pdf is generated into > Documentation/output/latex. > > Unfortunately, the pdflatex build generates huge amounts of build log > noise, and also fails in the end. We'll fix that next. > > Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula The commit log really does not much to explain to what bad extend rst2pdf is in, mentioning at least Mauro's feedback that he is aware this will not be fixed seems sufficient. Luis