[Buildroot] Trouble building the manual

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 9 09:14:05 UTC 2013


Dear Sagaert Johan,

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:04:16 +0200, Sagaert Johan wrote:

> # make manual-pdf
> >>>   Updating the manual lists...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/buildroot12git/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py", line 41, in <module>
>     from argparse import ArgumentParser
> ImportError: No module named argparse
> make: *** [manual-update-lists] Error 1

You need the Python argparse module. In recent versions of Python, it's
part of the standard library. With older versions, you need to install
separately.

Check if your distribution has a package called python-argparse or
something like that.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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