Re: git: 5a5db32f4a - main - Fix build after c8e8be58e580

From: Danilo G. Baio <dbaio_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:59:44 UTC

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021, at 18:20, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 10/7/21 1:54 PM, Danilo G. Baio wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 09:22:56AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> On 10/6/21 4:59 PM, Danilo G. Baio wrote:
>>>> The branch main has been updated by dbaio:
>>>>
>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=5a5db32f4a1e3f507cdc55f92d53e63adbb4f022
>>>>
>>>> commit 5a5db32f4a1e3f507cdc55f92d53e63adbb4f022
>>>> Author:     Danilo G. Baio <dbaio@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> AuthorDate: 2021-10-06 23:57:27 +0000
>>>> Commit:     Danilo G. Baio <dbaio@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> CommitDate: 2021-10-06 23:57:27 +0000
>>>>
>>>>       Fix build after c8e8be58e580
>>>
>>> It used to be possible to use 'make' in individual books or articles to test
>>> things, and also to only build just html versions and not be required to
>>> build PDF.  Apparently our new system doesn't permit either of those, so I
>>> gave up on trying to test this pre-commit.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> John Baldwin
>> 
>> 
>> To speed up the build time (right now), you can build only English HTML
>> documentation this way:
>> 
>> $ cd documentation
>> $ DOC_LANG="en" make
>> 
>>    14 seconds here
>>    against 2 minutes for all languages.
>> 
>> The `make run` also helps as pointed by Sergio.
>> 
>> 
>> ps. PDF is not built automatically.
>
> I tried plain 'make' at the documentation top-level and it failed due to missing
> asciidoctor-pdf (I had built docproj with PDF unchecked).
>
> I have used 'make' just fine for the website in the past.  The error message
> came from the 'requirements' target in documentation/Makefile:
>
> RUN_DEPENDS=    ${PYTHON_CMD} \
>                  ${HUGO_CMD} \
>                  ${LOCALBASE}/bin/asciidoctor \
>                  ${LOCALBASE}/bin/asciidoctor-pdf \
>                  ${LOCALBASE}/bin/rougify
>
> ...
>
> all: requirements starting-message generate-books-toc 
> generate-pgpkeys-txt build
> run: requirements starting-message generate-books-toc 
> generate-pgpkeys-txt run-local
>
> ...
>
> requirements:
> .for dep in ${RUN_DEPENDS}
> .if !exists(${dep})
>          @(echo ${dep} not found, please run 'pkg install docproj 
> python3'; exit 1)
> .endif
> .endfor
>
> Thus, even using 'make html' or 'make run' will fail if the PDF tools 
> aren't installed
> even though those make targets don't generate PDF.
>
> The problem for me wasn't the build time, it was the explicit error and 
> exit above.
>
> -- 
> John Baldwin

ah got it.

I misunderstood the main issue. 

we need to fix this requirement. 

and thanks for pointing that out.

-- 
Danilo G. Baio