On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:33:32 +0100 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Add an experimental PDF builder using rst2pdf > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Please notice that 18 documents (of a total of 71) won't build with > rst2pdf. There's an opened issue about that at: > > https://github.com/rst2pdf/rst2pdf/issues/958 > > v2: usage of SPHINXDIRS was fixed. > > > Documentation/Makefile | 5 +++++ > Documentation/conf.py | 21 +++++++++++++++------ > Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py | 12 ++++++++++++ > Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile | 1 + > Makefile | 4 ++-- > 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) So I would dearly love to have rst2pdf working. I applied this, then tried to see what would happen if I ran a build without having rst2pdf installed: > 1108 meer kernel: make htmldocs > SPHINX htmldocs --> file:///stuff/k/git/kernel/Documentation/output > make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'html'. > WARNING: The kernel documentation build process > support for Sphinx v3.0 and above is brand new. Be prepared for > possible issues in the generated output. > enabling CJK for LaTeX builder > > Extension error: > Could not import extension rst2pdf.pdfbuilder (exception: No module named 'rst2pdf') > make[1]: *** [Documentation/Makefile:91: htmldocs] Error 2 > make: *** [Makefile:1663: htmldocs] Error 2 Methinks it's perhaps not quite ready for linux-next yet :) With rst2pdf installed I get a bunch of zero-length files, as promised. Pretty much none of the larger "books" make it through. It's a start, though. I'll happily apply this as a step forward once it doesn't break the docs build if rst2pdf is missing. Thanks, jon