[Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 4] manual generation: check dependencies first

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Sep 19 19:30:44 UTC 2013


On 19/09/13 12:47, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> To generate the manual, you need asciidoc and w3m. If these are not present,
> pretty cryptic error messages are given.
> This patch adds a simple check for these dependencies, before attempting to
> build the manual.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>
> ---
>   docs/manual/manual.mk |  11 +++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.mk b/docs/manual/manual.mk
> --- a/docs/manual/manual.mk
> +++ b/docs/manual/manual.mk
> @@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ manual-update-lists:
>   	$(Q)BR2_DEFCONFIG="" TOPDIR=$(TOPDIR) O=$(O)/docs/manual/.build \
>   		$(TOPDIR)/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
>
> +manual-check-dependencies:
> +	$(Q)if [ -z "`which a2x 2>/dev/null`" ]; then \
> +		echo "You need asciidoc on your host to generate the manual"; \
> +		false; \

  I don't think this works. I think you need "exit 1;".

  Regards,
  Arnout

> +	fi
> +	$(Q)if [ -z "`which w3m 2>/dev/null`" ]; then \
> +		echo "You need w3m on your host to generate the manual"; \
> +		false; \
> +	fi
> +
>   ################################################################################
>   # GENDOC -- generates the make targets needed to build a specific type of
>   #           asciidoc documentation.
> @@ -24,6 +34,7 @@ define GENDOC_INNER
>
>   $$(O)/docs/$(1)/$(1).$(4): docs/$(1)/$(1).txt \
>   			   $$($(call UPPERCASE,$(1))_SOURCES) \
> +			   manual-check-dependencies \
>   			   manual-update-lists
>   	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Generating $(5) $(1)...")
>   	$(Q)mkdir -p $$(@D)/.build
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