Hi Johannes, Am 31.03.2017 um 08:26 schrieb Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I notice that now - since > > commit ec868e4ee2bcebb9e4c03979d90e0ac0b79fe05a > Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Nov 30 08:00:17 2016 -0200 > > docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files > > was merged, it is strictly necessary to have `dot' installed to build > documentation - there isn't even any fallback. > > Now, it's not hard to install, so I have no major objection against it, > but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out that this seems a bit > arbitrary - last I tried adding new functionality and *didn't* even > make it a build requirement (logging only a warning if not installed) I > was told I can't add such a thing. > > Does this mean something has changed and I can try again? :) no ;) yes, you are right and we have improved it; since .. -- doc-4.11-images db6ccf23e8ba40fc2e8914ec9c0eb950df71d9fe Author: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon Mar 6 14:09:27 2017 +0100 docs-rst: automatically convert Graphviz and SVG images -- the situation is much better: for HTML, dot installation is optional and other requirements are listed in Documentation/process/changes.rst (see chapter "Kernel documentation"). Mauro also patched his media tree to get rid of the 'dot' and 'convert' usage in the media/Makefile, see: -- 8fa1bb506fc9b5b0f7b5e42cee4f8213325a98ee Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu Mar 9 15:14:52 2017 -0300 docs-rst: Don't use explicit Makefile rules to build SVG and DOT files -- -- Markus -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
