Re: docs are generated on all build machines
On 04/01/2011 01:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In my case, I would need to set different configure flags depending on
>> whether the documentation should be built or not since the default
>> target also builds the docs if enabled.
>
> Under what conditions should the documentation not be built?
I'd like the docs only to be built *once* on the build server, not for
every architecture, since they are architecture independent and building
them for every architecture would waste hours of time.
>
>> I would like to avoid building the docs (as opposed to just not
>> building the package), since it is a pretty lengthy process.
>
> You can patch the upstream build system to disable building parts that
> you don't want to put into Debian.
>
> But perhaps you mean something else.
>
Yes, sorry about the unclear message.
Michael
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