Date:   Mon, 3 Jan 2022 18:11:08 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make pdfdocs fails on Debian stable
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:58:14PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Weird... when you do a make, it should have checked for all
> dependencies, when it internally runs:
> 
> 	./scripts/sphinx-pre-install 

Detected OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye).
Sphinx version: 3.4.3


All optional dependencies are met.
Needed package dependencies are met.

> Basically, you need the xelatex package for it to work, as PDF
> output is via LaTeX. This is not a mandatory requirement, though,
> as most people are only interested on html output, and LaTeX
> dependencies require to install lots of stuff. it should provide you
> a list of packages required for PDF, with a suggestion of using
> apt-get to install it.
> 
> In this specific case, I guess the package name is 'texlive-xetex'.

texlive-xetex is installed and seems to work find on various other
documents produced earlier by make pdfdocs