[systemd-devel] [PATCH] docs: fix build without xsltproc

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:17, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 02.10.11 20:07, Koen Kooi (koen at dominion.thruhere.net) wrote:
>
>> Make would choke on missing rules for man/systemd.1
>
> Hmm, I think this is a misunderstanding:
>
> The original idea here was to require xsltproc when you build from git,
> but ship the pre-generated man pages in the tarball so that you don't
> need xsltproc when you build from a tarball. configure is a script that
> only works properly for the tarball case, and generally is not suitable
> for finding dependencies necessary for git builds. (i.e. it won't
> install autoconf/automake either, ust assumes they are there.)
>
> Or am I missing something here?

No, discussed that already on IRC already. I don't think we can do
that with current autotools. It would be nice though to support direct
builds from git, but I think it needs more than conditionals.

One option here would be to introduce a --disable-docs option.

The other option, obviously, is to fix xsltproc, wait for it to be
fixed, to do the right thing, which was the plan last time I talked to
Koen. :)

Kay