Re: making documentation targets on v4.10 with Fedora 25

[Markus Heiser]

On 23.02.2017 20:44, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Jani Nikula
> <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > For the Sphinx targets, htmldocs, pdfdocs, epubdocs, and cleandocs
> > > failed.  cleandocs works without the O= argument, and arguably the O=
> > > thing isn't very useful with any of these targets, but it is supported
> > > by the top-level Makefile.
> >
> > Why do you say O= isn't useful with the targets?
>
> You're right, they are.  Silly me.
>
> Something like
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> index 707c65337ebf..eb4294322150 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ installmandocs:
>
>  cleandocs:
>         $(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
> -       $(Q)$(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) -C Documentation/media clean
> +       $(Q)$(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) -C
> $(srctree)/Documentation/media clean
>
>  endif # HAVE_SPHINX
>
> seems to get cleandocs working again.

I guess the O= error was already patched:

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg42989.html


-- Markus --

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