Re: make htmldocs on linux-next failed with warnings.

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 12:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:31:59 -0600
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:28:56 +0100
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 23:22 +0900, Masanari Iida wrote:  
> > > > make htmldocs on linux-next have some parser warnings.
> > > > Following commit cause the warning.    
> > > 
> > > Yes it has warnings but they should be non-fatal.  
> > 
> > Even so, we don't really want to be adding warnings to the build.
> > Hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to fix these...?
> 
> So I've not heard any further on this.

Sorry about that.  I didn't forget about it but didn't have a good idea
how to fix it.

> I think at this point I'm going
> to revert the patch in question; adding warnings for everybody is just
> not the right thing to do.  The other patches in the series can stay.

OK.

> Having spent some time pondering on the issue, I've also concluded that
> this isn't quite the right solution to the problem.  Better, I think, to
> have docproc filter out the duplicates directly, and to direct the output
> to a different file type (.fxml, say).  Otherwise the .xml files can have
> two different things depending on which type of docs was built first,
> leading possibly to other formats being built with missing stuff.
> 
> I may hack together a solution along these lines, just because I do think
> that the reproducible builds goal is an important one.  But I've got a
> *bunch* of other stuff that I have to get done, so I'm not quite sure
> when I can get to it.

I've now thought of another approach, which is to keep the duplicates
during the build process and de-duplicate when installing.  I've just
sent a patch along those lines.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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