[Clfs-dev] clfs 2.1.0 multilib section 7.9 eudev 1.3

[William Harrington]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:

> I think xsltproc is not needed: if it is not there, the manpages are  
> not built
> (tested). But if you have xsltproc installed, then either you need  
> docbook-xsl
> or you should use --disable-manpages.
>
> Regards
> Pierre

Correct, we may need to fix some commands in the boot method for eudev  
if the host has xsltproc.

I rarely test the boot method, and I know Martin Ward does, but I  
don't know if he ever installs xsltproc on the host OS.

I think that adding --disable-manpages for the boot method is a good  
idea.

For the final system, if someone installs libxml2 and xsltproc early  
in the build process, and then they don't install docbook-xsl, then  
this issue will crop up as you stated. It would be nice if man pages  
were shipped; however, I wonder if eudev devs had the man pages  
created based on the configure options provided, like systemd did  
before they started shipping man pages.

I don't think a note is necessary in eudev for final-system as the  
default build doesn't install xsltproc. I suppose as a precautionary  
measure, we could also add --disable-manpages to final-system eudev.

Any comments?

Sincerely,

William Harrington