Hi Maciej,
On Fri, 13 May 2022 23:41:57 +0100 (BST),
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hi,
>
[...]
>
> For the latter command however I need to note that several other
> documents in our Documentation/ tree suffer from a problem that causes
> `make pdfdocs' to fail (and the failure cannot be worked around with
> make's `-k -i' options, i.e. no output is ever produced), e.g.:
>
> Markup is unsupported in LaTeX:
> filesystems/9p:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
>
> and similarly for: filesystems/erofs, filesystems/f2fs, filesystems/ntfs,
> networking/device_drivers/ethernet/dlink/dl2k, scsi/arcmsr_spec,
> scsi/g_NCR5380, scsi/ncr53c8xx, and scsi/sym53c8xx_2. I don't know if it
> is a known problem, possibly addressed in a newer version of tools, so
> I've thought it might be worth reporting.
>
[...]
>
> NB XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99999 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) and
> Sphinx 1.8.4 here.
As mentioned in the section titled "PDF and LaTeX builds" in
Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst, "make pdfdocs" requires Sphinx 2.4 or
later.
Another hint for you.
You can say "make SPHINXDIRS=<sub dir> htmldocs pdfdocs" to
test-build docs under Documentation/<sub dir>/.
You might see false warnings of "WARNING: undefined label: ..."
which you wouldn't see in full builds, though.
Hope this helps.
I see there is no mention of the SPHINXDIRS make variable in the
doc-guide. I'll see it can be explained somewhere in sphinx.rst.
Thanks, Akira
>
> The issues are not directly related to the changes proposed here though,
> so please apply them.
>
> Maciej
