[Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 4] manual generation: check dependencies first

Ryan Barnett rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com
Thu Sep 19 15:20:08 UTC 2013


Thomas,

Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote on 09/19/2013 
10:08:03 AM:
 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Ryan Barnett
> <rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was also going to to add to the documentation the versions of the 
Ubuntu
> > packages that I got the manual to build with. Ubuntu version + package
> > version so that way in the manual we can give a reference system
> > configuration that we say builds the manual. For Ubuntu 10.04 I was 
having
> > issues building the manual but with Ubuntu 12.04 I could successfully 
build
> > everything.
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to get around to doing this yet so I don't know 
if
> > you want to add your Ubuntu configuration as a reference configuration 
for
> > generating the manual under Section 3.2? Maybe this warrants a 
subsection
> > (3.2.1) in manual for generating the manual? If you don't get around 
to
> > doing this, I will when I get around to adding some documentation to 
the
> > regarding SELinux and information about patch reviews.
> 
> I'm wondering whether this is very useful. A user will not install
> another Linux distribution just to build the buildroot manual, so the
> Ubuntu version doesn't seem necessary to me. The package version only
> seems relevant in case we know that some versions give problems for
> building the manual. But unless we have some more info on that, I
> would not add such info to the manual (also because it is very quickly
> out-of-date).

I'm sorry I misspoke and I do agree with you that we should just give the
version of asciidoc/w3m/(don't remember the other packages). After I sent
the previous message I figured that wasn't good idea. But I still think
that it would be helpful to have the versions of the tools that are used
and the version for which they are known to work for.
 
> For the problems you saw on Ubuntu 10.04, there may be a solution with
> asciidoc 8.6.3, as I just posted in your original thread. If this
> could be verified, then we could update the manual with just that.

Thanks - I never really had time to track down the solution or what
version issue was fixed at. I've replied with the information to the email
on that original thread.

> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas

Thanks,
-Ryan



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