Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 24 (htmldocs / pdfdocs)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

Hi Akira,

On 9/25/25 7:15 AM, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:54:18 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 9/24/25 7:41 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> There will be no -next releases Tuesday and Wednesday next week, and
>>> it's possible I might run out of time on Monday.
>>>
>>
>> When I run 'make O=DOCS htmldocs', I see these warning messages:
>>
>> ../Documentation/Makefile:70: warning: overriding recipe for target 'pdfdocs'
>> ../Documentation/Makefile:61: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'pdfdocs'
>>
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
> 
> I could reproduce these warnings under containers who have minimal
> packages needed for htmldocs *only*.
> 
> Current "docs-mw" branch doesn't show them.  "build-scripts" is the
> one who carries this harmless regression.
> 
> By "harmless", I mean "pdfdocs" needs texlive packages anyway.


Right, I don't have any texlive (or latex or tetex) packages installed.
I shouldn't need to since I am not building any pdfdocs, so I
shouldn't get these warning messages. But if they go away in the near
future, that's great.

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy