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* [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit
@ 2015-01-26 10:31 Michal Marek
2015-01-27 1:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2015-01-28 19:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michal Marek @ 2015-01-26 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Randy Dunlap; +Cc: linux-doc, linux-kbuild, linux-kernel
Use find + xargs to compress the generated manpages. Without this patch,
the build can fail with
gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9
/bin/bash: /usr/bin/gzip: Argument list too long
This happened with qemu user mode emulation on aarch64.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
---
Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 9c7d92d..b6a6a2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
mandocs: $(MAN)
- $(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9)
+ find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
installmandocs: mandocs
mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
--
2.1.2
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* Re: [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit
2015-01-26 10:31 [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit Michal Marek
@ 2015-01-27 1:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2015-01-28 19:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2015-01-27 1:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Marek, Jonathan Corbet; +Cc: linux-doc, linux-kbuild, linux-kernel
Adding Mr. Corbet.
On 01/26/15 02:31, Michal Marek wrote:
> Use find + xargs to compress the generated manpages. Without this patch,
> the build can fail with
>
> gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9
> /bin/bash: /usr/bin/gzip: Argument list too long
>
> This happened with qemu user mode emulation on aarch64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> ---
> Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> index 9c7d92d..b6a6a2e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
>
> MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
> mandocs: $(MAN)
> - $(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9)
> + find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
>
> installmandocs: mandocs
> mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
>
--
~Randy
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* Re: [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit
2015-01-26 10:31 [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit Michal Marek
2015-01-27 1:36 ` Randy Dunlap
@ 2015-01-28 19:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2015-01-28 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Marek; +Cc: Randy Dunlap, linux-doc, linux-kbuild, linux-kernel
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:31:17 +0100
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
> Use find + xargs to compress the generated manpages. Without this patch,
> the build can fail with
>
> gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9
> /bin/bash: /usr/bin/gzip: Argument list too long
That is a lot of files in that directory these days...applied to the docs
tree, thanks.
jon
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