[yocto] YP documentation survey

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Have you ensured that the host system has all the packages needed to build the docs?  The section http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6.1/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#required-packages-for-the-host-development-system lists out the requirements needed depending on what you are building and the distro on the host system.  

Scott

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>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Denys Dmytriyenko
>Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 1:57 PM
>To: Trevor Woerner
>Cc: Yocto Project
>Subject: Re: [yocto] YP documentation survey
>
>For me, it fails with:
>
>fop: command not found
>
>Trying to install fop shows me about 100 (!) Java dependencies... Is this
>expected?
>
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>Denys
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>>
>> On 09/30/14 14:22, Chris Hallinan wrote:
>> > My only comment: make it easier to build the latest docs from git.  I
>> > seem to always hit errors, and I've seen other posts about that, too.
>> > I just did a quick make DOC=mega-manual on Daisy, and it failed with:
>> > "tar: mega-manual.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory"
>> >
>> > make DOC=dev-manual failed due to missing dependencies, and in the 30
>> > seconds I spent while writing this e-mail, I couldn't figure out what
>> > to install on my U14.04 host to satisfy it.
>> >
>> > I don't have much use/fondness for html docs.  Give me a searchable
>> > PDF any day.
>> >
>>
>> Attached is the little shell script I run right after I run my other
>> shell script that updates all the layer repositories I follow :-)
>>
>> I only build the PDFs and I've never been successful building the mega
>> manual either (pdf, html, or otherwise).
>>
>> Getting the docs to build on my openSUSE system was also a challenge
>> since there are two packages which provide "docbook2x-texi" and I need
>> the _other_ one :-)
>
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