[PATCH v2 1/6] alsa-utils: build more manpages with rst2man

Ross Burton
2026-01-09T13:58:59Z

alsa-utils uses both xmlto and rst2man (from docutils) to build manpages,
but we were only enabling xmlto. Enable/disable both xmlto and rst2man
depending on whether manpages are being requested.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
---
meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.1.bb | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.1.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.1.bb
index dad5478f39..e231acbfc0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.1.bb
@@ -21,18 +21,12 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "udev"
PACKAGECONFIG[bat] = "--enable-bat,--disable-bat,fftwf"

PACKAGECONFIG[udev] = "--with-udev-rules-dir=`pkg-config --variable=udevdir udev`/rules.d,--with-udev-rules-dir=/unwanted/rules.d,udev"
-PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "--enable-xmlto, --disable-xmlto, xmlto-native docbook-xml-dtd4-native docbook-xsl-stylesheets-native"
+PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "--enable-rst2man --enable-xmlto, --disable-rst2man --disable-xmlto, python3-docutils-native xmlto-native docbook-xml-dtd4-native docbook-xsl-stylesheets-native"

# alsa-utils specified in SRC_URI due to alsa-utils-scripts recipe
SRC_URI = "https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/utils/alsa-utils-${PV}.tar.bz2"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5ad79f349e59c30c9a4929ad4995ebee33267473e0e632d7c1a30e2b093d3327"

-# On build machines with python-docutils (not python3-docutils !!) installed
-# rst2man (not rst2man.py) is detected and compile fails with
-# | make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'alsaucm.1', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.
-# Avoid this by disabling expicitly
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-rst2man"
-
inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig manpages

# This are all packages that we need to make. Also, the now empty alsa-utils
--
2.43.0