Howto get/build kernel docs from kernel-doc rpm?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 18:38:18 UTC 2008


Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> I want to get the kernel man9 pages.
>>
>> I have kernel-doc-2.6.24 rpm installed.
>>
>> In  /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.24/Documentation/DocBook/ is a
>> Makefile, but it doesn't seem to work as-is:
>>
>> make pdfdocs
>> make: *** No rule to make target `/scripts/kernel-doc', needed by
>> `/wanbook.xml'.  Stop.
> 
> the stuff under the DocBook directory is meant to be built by running
> the appropriate "make" command from the top of the kernel source tree,
> not from the makefile in that directory.  so, short answer -- i think
> you need to get the source tree, that doc rpm simply doesn't have
> everything you need to build those man pages.
> 
Yeah, well, that sucks for Fedora.

I grabbed kernel-docs noarch from opensuse.  Has all the manpages all ready to go.

Please, can we have this for Fedora?




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