On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:45:21PM -0400, James Harvey wrote: > I'm one of the Arch Linux AUR repository rdma-core maintainers. > > We've always build rdma-core from release tags in the git repo. > > As-is, building v25 from the git repo has a new build requirement of > rst2man, which isn't documented in the release notes or in the readme. > (On Arch, part of the python-docutils package.) I haven't directly > used pandoc or rst2man before, so I don't know if rst2man was added to > be an alternative to pandoc, or ran in addition to it. In case they > were meant as alternatives, the build system doesn't currently > function that way. With pandoc but without rst2man, it says > "'install' disabled", and never builds the man pages, causing "ninja > install" to fail from not finding > "pandoc-prebuilt/f48a8d31ddfa68fad6c3badbc768ac703976c43f". rst2man is an extra requirement due to addition infiniband-diags to be inside rdma-core. Patches to update README are more than welcomed. > > I looked at switching to the release tarballs (rdma-core-25.0.tar.gz), > which of course has the prebuilt man pages. I assume doing this > should completely prevent needing pandoc and rst2man. But, then > "ninja install" fails from not finding > "pandoc-prebuilt/32acf8c8016edc90e7adedc5be9caecd9b8abb3e", which I do > see is not among the 81 directories in "pandoc-prebuilt/" in > "rdma-core-25.0.tar.gz". Were some of the necessary prebuilt files > not included in the 25 tarball? Not intentionally, maybe bug.
