On Some Debian-based distros, ImageMagick package has a broken
policy that causes LaTeX to fail while building docs.
Add a note about that.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
index 324baa98a395..09a337509b23 100755
--- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
+++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
@@ -782,6 +782,11 @@ class SphinxDependencyChecker(MissingCheckers):
self.check_program("dvipng", DepManager.PDF_MANDATORY)
+ if not self.distro_msg:
+ self.distro_msg = \
+ "Note: ImageMagick is broken on some distros, affecting PDF output. For more details:\n" \
+ "\thttps://askubuntu.com/questions/1158894/imagemagick-still-broken-using-with-usr-bin-convert";
+
return self.get_install_progs(progs, "apt-get install")
def give_redhat_hints(self):
@@ -1193,7 +1198,7 @@ class SphinxDependencyChecker(MissingCheckers):
self.distro_msg = \
f"I don't know distro {self.system_release}.\n" \
"So, I can't provide you a hint with the install procedure.\n" \
- "There are likely missing dependencies.\n"
+ "There are likely missing dependencies."
return self.get_install_progs(progs, None)
--
2.49.0
