Error in building The RTEMS 5 Docs

[Gedare Bloom]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 12:05 PM Christian Mauderer <oss at c-mauderer.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Pranav,
>
> On 13/06/2021 20:00, Pranav Dangi wrote:
> > Building the RTEMS 5 docs using the waf build system fails and throws up
> > an error in sphinx:
> >
> > err:
> > Extension error:
> > You must configure the bibtex_bibfiles setting.
> >
>
> thanks for reporting. Like discussed in discord, a cherry-pick of the
> following two patches solves the problem:
>
> https://git.rtems.org/rtems-docs/commit/?id=4563bb6a8b5622b8502437929f
> https://git.rtems.org/rtems-docs/commit/?id=1568c2baa7d3ea0846b7d96952
>
> Especially Gedare and Chris (you wrote the commits): Do you think we
> should back port the two to the 5 branch? Or would that make more
> problems than it solves?
>

My concern would be backward compatibility to older hosts/versions.
I'd rather not touch a release for host-side updates that happened
after the release was cut, unless absolutely necessary and we can
isolate the versions affected.

> Best regards
>
> Christian