[yocto] [PATCH][yocto-docs] poky.ent: Ubuntu based systems need xlstproc

[Burton, Ross]

On 31 March 2015 at 12:38, Flanagan, Elizabeth <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com
> wrote:

> On 28 March 2015 at 04:23, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Beth,
> >
> > On Friday 27 March 2015 15:03:10 Beth Flanagan wrote:
> >> xlstproc is needed for doc building. I'm sure others are
> >> effected as well.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Beth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com>
> >> ---
> >>  documentation/poky.ent | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/documentation/poky.ent b/documentation/poky.ent
> >> index 5d12fc1..a8fe99f 100644
> >> --- a/documentation/poky.ent
> >> +++ b/documentation/poky.ent
> >> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
> >>  <!ENTITY OE_INIT_PATH "&YOCTO_POKY;/oe-init-build-env">
> >>  <!ENTITY OE_INIT_FILE "oe-init-build-env">
> >>  <!ENTITY UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL "gawk wget git-core diffstat
> unzip
> >> texinfo gcc-multilib \ -     build-essential chrpath socat">
> >> +     build-essential chrpath socat xsltproc">
> >>  <!ENTITY FEDORA_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL "gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip
> >> python unzip perl patch \ diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++
> >> glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \ ccache perl-Data-Dumper
> perl-Text-ParseWords
> >> perl-Thread-Queue socat">
> >
> > Which doc building? Our manuals or docs as part of recipes? Can you give
> an
> > example of a failure?
> >
>
> yocto-docs. On an Ubuntu based system I was having issues building
> them because xsltproc wasn't installed during the normal system
> install. I'm not sure if other can verify that, but I tried it on two
> of my systems with the same results (Mint 17.1 Rebecca).
>

Building the documentation from scratch isn't a normal thing for a user to
do, so I wouldn't add xsltproc to the list of build essential packages for
builds.

It should be documented along with the other dependencies in the
instructions for building the documentation of course.

Ross
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