Re: [PATCH] [KERNEL-DOC] kill warnings when building mandocs

Borislav Petkov
2007-04-20T06:02:54Z

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:53:36AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:20:59 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > > > I'm pretty sure the reason you cannot reproduce this warning is the line
> > > >
> > > > <xsl:param name="refentry.version.suppress">1</xsl:param>
> > > >
> > > > which can be found in param.xsl, it being a part of the docbook-xsl
> > > > distribution. The parameter's name is self-explanatory and a '1' suppresses
> > > > the version generation. I was able to get this error because in the
> > > > debian docbook-xsl package this param value is set to 0 by default.
> > >
> > > Hm, I don't seem to have that file installed (except in
> > > /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/...). Where would it normally
> > > be installed?
> >
> > /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/param.xsl here
>
> OK, I have that one, with a /current/ stuck in there:
>
>
> /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/1.69.1/manpages/param.xsl
>
> <xsl:param name="refentry.version.suppress">0</xsl:param>

That's why you don't get the warnings.

> > > > This means, some users will get this warning and some will not, depending on the
> > > > setting in the param.xsl file. What is the way to go here wrt to a solution
> > > > dealing with all cases:
> > > >
> > > > 1. patch the kernel-doc?
> > > > 2. issue an info so that the user can suppress the annoying warning by
> > > > themselves?
> > > > 3. ...?
> > >
> > >
> > > Are other people seeing these warning messages ??
> > Hm, is anyone building the manpages target at all?
>
> Other than the 2 of us... I couldn't say.

By the way, can we consider the item
"- clean up Documentation/DocBook/, fix warnings that occur on make *docs."
from the KJ TODO list as now done?

> > > If so, I think that we should patch the kernel-doc. I don't think
> > > that many people would read info about how to avoid the warnings.
>
>
> ---
> ~Randy
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Boris.