tools: bpftool: exit doc Makefile early if rst2man is not available

If rst2man is not available on the system, running `make doc` from the bpftool directory fails with an error message. However, it creates empty manual pages (.8 files in this case). A subsequent call to `make doc-install` would then succeed and install those empty man pages on the system. To prevent this, raise a Makefile error and exit immediately if rst2man is not available before generating the pages from the rst documentation. Fixes: ff69c21 ("tools: bpftool: add documentation") Reported-by: Jason van Aaardt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
cail · Feb 8, 2018 · 9242682 · 9242682
1 parent 0badd33
commit 9242682
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ DOC_MAN8 = $(addprefix $(OUTPUT),$(_DOC_MAN8))
 man: man8
 man8: $(DOC_MAN8)
 
+RST2MAN_DEP := $(shell command -v rst2man 2>/dev/null)
+
 $(OUTPUT)%.8: %.rst
+ifndef RST2MAN_DEP
+	$(error "rst2man not found, but required to generate man pages")
+endif
 	$(QUIET_GEN)rst2man $< > $@
 
 clean: