[PATCH RFC] docs: experimental: build PDF with rst2pdf

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 11:36:45 EST


Add an experimental PDF builder using rst2pdf

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/Makefile | 5 +++++
Documentation/conf.py | 21 +++++++++++++++------
Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile | 1 +
Makefile | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 61a7310b49e0..c3c8fb10f94e 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ pdfdocs: latexdocs

endif # HAVE_PDFLATEX

+rst2pdf:
+ @$(srctree)/scripts/sphinx-pre-install --version-check
+ @+$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,pdf,$(var),pdf,$(var)))
+
epubdocs:
@$(srctree)/scripts/sphinx-pre-install --version-check
@+$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,epub,$(var),epub,$(var)))
@@ -140,6 +144,7 @@ dochelp:
@echo ' htmldocs - HTML'
@echo ' latexdocs - LaTeX'
@echo ' pdfdocs - PDF'
+ @echo ' rst2pdf - PDF, using experimental rst2pdf support'
@echo ' epubdocs - EPUB'
@echo ' xmldocs - XML'
@echo ' linkcheckdocs - check for broken external links'
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 66e121df59cd..6f2788aac81e 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ if (major == 1 and minor > 3) or (major > 1):
else:
extensions.append("sphinx.ext.pngmath")

+# Enable experimental rst2pdf, if available
+try:
+ extensions.append("rst2pdf.pdfbuilder")
+except:
+ sys.stderr.write('rst2pdf extension not available.\n')
+
# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
templates_path = ['_templates']

@@ -614,12 +620,15 @@ epub_exclude_files = ['search.html']
#
# See the Sphinx chapter of https://ralsina.me/static/manual.pdf
#
-# FIXME: Do not add the index file here; the result will be too big. Adding
-# multiple PDF files here actually tries to get the cross-referencing right
-# *between* PDF files.
-pdf_documents = [
- ('kernel-documentation', u'Kernel', u'Kernel', u'J. Random Bozo'),
-]
+
+# Add all LaTeX files to PDF documents as well
+pdf_documents = []
+for l in latex_documents:
+ doc = l[0]
+ fn = l[1].replace(".tex", "")
+ name = l[2]
+ authors = l[3]
+ pdf_documents.append((doc, fn, name, authors))

# kernel-doc extension configuration for running Sphinx directly (e.g. by Read
# the Docs). In a normal build, these are supplied from the Makefile via command
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile
index 81a4a1a53bce..8c6b3ac4ecb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ all: $(IMGDOT) $(BUILDDIR) ${TARGETS}
html: all
epub: all
xml: all
+pdf: all
latex: $(IMGPDF) all
linkcheck:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 43ecedeb3f02..db4043578eec 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ no-dot-config-targets := $(clean-targets) \
cscope gtags TAGS tags help% %docs check% coccicheck \
$(version_h) headers headers_% archheaders archscripts \
%asm-generic kernelversion %src-pkg dt_binding_check \
- outputmakefile
+ outputmakefile rst2pdf
no-sync-config-targets := $(no-dot-config-targets) %install kernelrelease
single-targets := %.a %.i %.ko %.lds %.ll %.lst %.mod %.o %.s %.symtypes %/

@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ $(help-board-dirs): help-%:

# Documentation targets
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs \
+DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs rst2pdf htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs \
linkcheckdocs dochelp refcheckdocs
PHONY += $(DOC_TARGETS)
$(DOC_TARGETS):
--
2.29.2