linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Fix PDF build errors

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Message-ID: <20161102103618.2600485a@vela.lan>
Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 10:36:18 -0600
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, kbuild-all@...org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Fix PDF build errors

Em Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:27:50 +0200
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> escreveu:

> On Wed, 02 Nov 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org> wrote:
> > Em Wed, 02 Nov 2016 13:14:47 +0200
> > Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> escreveu:
> >  
> >> On Wed, 02 Nov 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com> wrote:  
> >> > This series address a series of errors during PDF generation from
> >> > media documentation.
> >> >
> >> > Please notice that patch 2 carries on a PDF conversion from a PNG
> >> > image, because Sphinx is not smart enough to do the convertion.
> >> >
> >> > This is a temporary solution (That's why I'm marking this series
> >> > as RFC).    
> >> 
> >> This seems to work on top of docs-next.  
> >
> > Yes.
> >  
> >> ...but it'll break again if we include the missing admin-guide in the
> >> build. :(  
> >
> > LaTeX/PDF output is ugly... for each new stuff, we need to re-validate its
> > output :-(  
> 
> Once we have this working, I think the only way to keep it working is to
> have continuous testing of the pdf build. That won't keep the output
> pretty, but it'll help ensure passing build.

Yes.

> Perhaps 0day could eventually start running 'make DOCBOOKS="" pdfdocs'
> after the htmldocs target? Cc: Fengguang and kbuild-all.

Good idea! it will be really helpful if Fengguang could automate the
testing process once we fix it.

Regards,
Mauro