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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 11.10.11 01:36, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> 
> 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. :)

Fix xsltproc? Hmm? What do you mean? What should it to differently? I
mean, if it isn't installed it can't do anything differently, can it?

Lennart

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