Re: Wayland-1.25.0 needs a new optional prerequisite to build documentation

Richard Henschel ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:39:47 -0600
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On 6/28/26 11:12, Zeckma ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing=20
List) wrote:

> On 6/28/26 10:35, Richard ([email protected] via blfs-support
> Mailing List) wrote:
> > If you set "-D documentation=3Dtrue",=C2=A0 meson complains about missi=
ng
> > mdbook.
> >
> > You can get it here: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
> > It is the usual cargo/rustc application.=C2=A0 I built it as:
> >
> > cargo build --package mdbook --release
> > install -vm755 target/release/mdbook /usr/bin
>
> This was warned about in
> https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/23272. The one who did
> the update didn't change the listed dependencies. Either way, this
> has now been fixed at 045d6a9ce1d44f266e762da1ec7cb523ece78ff5.
> Thanks for the report!
>
> > What's with the name?=C2=A0 Is it a bad pun on "Doc" book?
>
> It seems to be shorthand for markdownBook, to convert MarkDown to
> HTML and other formats. Some projects have began to use it, Wayland
> now being one of them. I might add it to Supplemental LFS pretty soon.
>
> - Zeckma
>
 =C2=A0Thank you, also for the explanation 8>)=C2=A0 I have seen "Discount"=
 used=20
for "Markdown" in the book.=C2=A0 For some reason I expect puns.


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