[Buildroot] Building Manual Errors

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Ryan Barnett,

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:27:51 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> > Samuel: shouldn't we check the dependencies for building the manual
> > before someone attemps to do that? On my Linux Mint system
> > (=Ubuntu-based) I had to install asciidoc (which pulled in a lot of
> > tex deps) and w3m.
> 
> One I idea I had to solve these dependancies issues between specific
> versions and packages for all the different distro's is to add all 
> of the packages that are needed for building manual or any other 
> buildroot maintenance script (stuff that is in support/scripts) to
> buildroot as host packages and then put together a 
> buildroot_maintenance_defconfig that will build all of the packages
> need for the host system to run this scripts. Let me know what 
> you think about that and we can maybe continue this discussion 
> in a different thread. 

My understanding is that asciidoc requires a very large number of TeX /
LaTeX dependencies which I really don't think we want to package in
Buildroot, so I believe doing this is not such a good idea.

Normal users shouldn't need to build the manual, since it's available
online for reading. Only developers will care about this, and I believe
installing asciidoc is a reasonable requirement for developers.

Thomas
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