Hi, Sorry for a rather delayed feedback. Got cut of due to various circumstances in real life. Added a comment below. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 25th, 2021 at 10:53 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/25/21 1:11 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > pioneer695 pioneer695@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > > In an attempt to get some readable documentation I cloned the git repository > > > > > > to check how the PDF format is. > > > > > > Entered Documentation and proceeded with: > > > > > > make pdfdocs > > Hi, > > I'm curious about this part above. Are you saying that you did: > > cd Documentation > > make pdfdocs > > I've never tried that and don't expect it to be done that way. > > I do (from the top of the kernel source tree): > > make pdfdocs > > or > > make htmldocs > > with no problems, other than I may not have all of the latex > > tools installed. > Yes. This is correct. After realizing my errors building from root gave no issues. I thought the Documentation was a separate make tree from the rest. IF it could be an issue, beyond my stupidity, a simple README that say *build this from root* or similar should suffice in my opinion. I always look for README, COMPILING or the like (but that's me). ~pioneer695 > > > which failed, so to start fresh, my thought was that: > > > > > > make cleandocs > > > > > > would be the next step before anything else. But, this resulted in: > > > > > > rm -rf /output > > > > That's not good... > > > > > as $(obj) for some reason was empty. > > > > This would appear to be the real problem. If you could do some > > > > digging to figure out why that happened, I suspect that would be > > > > useful. > > > > > Makefile for Documentation has: > > > > > > BUILDDIR = $(obj)/output > > > > > > cleandocs: > > > > > > $(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR) > > > > > > This should (at least?!) be: > > > > > > BUILDDIR = ./$(obj)/output > > > > > > or: > > > > > > $(Q)rm -rf ./$(BUILDDIR) > > > > These would break builds for a lot of people and are not the right > > > > solution. > > -- > > ~Randy
