Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/12] qemu-ga: Convert invocation documentation to rST

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 9/19/19 8:35 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 14:27, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/19/19 7:00 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>>>> In an incremental build on Fedora 30, I'm now seeing:
>>>>
>>>>         CHK version_gen.h
>>>>   GEN     docs/interop/qemu-ga.8
>>>> No filename or title
>>>> make: *** [/home/eblake/qemu/rules.mak:394: docs/interop/qemu-ga.8]
>>>> Error 255
>>>>
>>>> and suspect this patch introduced it.  It may be that I just need to
>>>> nuke intermediate artifacts rather than an actual problem with the
>>>> patch, but I'd welcome help in identifying the problem.
>>>
>>> If you build with V=1 what does it say it's doing?
>>
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/eblake/qemu/dtc'
>> perl -Ww -- /home/eblake/qemu/scripts/texi2pod.pl -I docs -I scripts -I
>> docs/interop -DVERSION="4.1.50" -DCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc/qemu"
>> scripts/texi2pod.pl docs/interop/qemu-ga.8.pod && pod2man --utf8
>> --section=8 --center=" " --release=" " docs/interop/qemu-ga.8.pod >
>> docs/interop/qemu-ga.8
>> No filename or title
>> make: *** [/home/eblake/qemu/rules.mak:394: docs/interop/qemu-ga.8]
>> Error 255
> 
> Do you have sphinx installed on this machine?

Not yet.

/me goes and installs sphinx-2.2.11-12.fc30.x86_64

Nope, problem is still happening even after rerunning ./configure


> I'm wondering
> if the problem here is that we have disabled the sphinx build
> runes but are then falling back to the "try to make any %.8
> via the TEXI2MAN rule in rules.mak" [*]. On the other hand
> docs/interop/qemu-ga.8 is only put into DOCS if BUILD_DOCS is
> set, which should only happen if sphinx is available.
> 
> [*] these rules are a bit bogus, because I think they will apply even
> if there's no other rule saying 'foo.8 depends on something.texi',
> and then as you can see in your command line we end up running
> texi2pod with an empty "$<" rather than passing it a texi file.

Okay, that's something to play with.


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