module-init-tools build currently fails if docbook2man is not available on the build system. However, since docbook2man is only used to build the documentation, it is not strictly necessary, and there are cases (embedded Linux build systems) where it's really useful to not have to build things such as docbook2man. This patch has been present in Buildroot for quite some time now : http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-3.11-add-manpages-config-option.patch OpenEmbedded has a different hack to disable the build of module-init-tools manpages: http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/module-init-tools/files/no_man_rebuild PTXdist has yet another different hack to also disable the build of module-init-tools manpages: http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=ptxdist.git;a=blob;f=rules/module-init-tools.make;h=0af89157a0bec221bf44e44a8e66f9be5c23190f;hb=HEAD#l41 The fix consists in adding an automake conditional variable HAVE_DOCBOOKTOMAN, which is defined when docbook-to-man has been found. This variable is used in the Makefile.am to enable or disable the construction of the manpages. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile.am | 7 ++++++- configure.ac | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 6f83c12..9438350 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -39,7 +39,12 @@ modindex_LDADD = $(LDADD) libmodtools.a MAN5 = modprobe.conf.5 modules.dep.5 depmod.conf.5 modprobe.d.5 MAN8 = depmod.8 insmod.8 lsmod.8 rmmod.8 modprobe.8 modinfo.8 SGML = $(addprefix doc/, $(MAN5:%.5=%.sgml) $(MAN8:%.8=%.sgml)) -dist_man_MANS = $(MAN5) $(MAN8) + +if HAVE_DOCBOOKTOMAN +MANPAGES = $(MAN5) $(MAN8) +endif +dist_man_MANS = $(MANPAGES) + # If they haven't overridden mandir, fix it (never /man!) mandir =$(shell if [ @mandir@ = $(prefix)/man ]; then if [ $(prefix) = / ]; then echo /usr/share/man; else echo $(prefix)/share/man; fi; else echo @mandir@; fi) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 163148e..ab16c96 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -29,13 +29,12 @@ fi]) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_RANLIB -AC_CHECK_PROGS(DOCBOOKTOMAN, docbook-to-man docbook2man, [no],) -if test x"$DOCBOOKTOMAN" = xno +AC_CHECK_PROGS(DOCBOOKTOMAN, docbook-to-man docbook2man) +if test x"$DOCBOOKTOMAN" = x then AC_MSG_WARN([docbook2man not found]) - # fail with a meaningfull error if $DOCBOOKTOMAN called by the makefile - DOCBOOKTOMAN=docbook2man fi +AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_DOCBOOKTOMAN], [test "x$DOCBOOKTOMAN" != "x"]) # Delay adding the zlib_flags until after AC_PROG_CC, so we can distinguish # between a broken cc and a working cc but missing libz.a. -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html