[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Use makeinfo to generate html doc for the new website

[Timothy Gu]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 02:23:07PM -0700, Timothy Gu wrote:
>> texi2html is deprecated by upstream in favor of makeinfo/texi2any. See:
>>
>> - https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/texi2html.html
>> - https://wiki.debian.org/Texi2htmlTransition
>> - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01516.html
>>
>> This is actually two separate changes. But as makeinfo and texi2html
>> adopt 2 (very) different init file syntaxes, it is easier to do the two
>> transitions at once.
>>
>> Based on a patch by Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>.
>>
>> Fixes Trac ticket #3232.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com>
>
> breaks build on ubuntu 12.04
>
> makeinfo: unrecognized option '--init-file=./doc/t2h.pm'
> Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
> makeinfo: unrecognized option '--init-file=./doc/t2h.pm'
> Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
> make: *** [doc/ffmpeg-utils.html] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [doc/ffplay.html] Error 1
> HTML    doc/ffserver.html
> HTML    doc/ffprobe-all.html
>
> also mac OSX 10.9.4 seems to only have makeinfo 4.8, or at least thats
> whats installed on the box i looked at

Should be fixed by the upcoming patch.

Timothy