no such file when make docs

[woshichuanqilz]

Platform:
manjaro 20
GPU, drivers, and screen setup:
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.5

Compton version:
git-v0.1_beta2-95-g241bbc5-2018-02-22
Compton configuration:
Same with this repo no extra config yet.

Steps of reproduction

make # success

make docs 11:52:59
a2x --format manpage man/compton.1.asciidoc
make: a2x: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:146: man/compton.1] Error 127

Expected behavior

files in man folder:

-rw-r--r-- 1 lizhe lizhe 1.4K 8月 26 11:48 CMakeLists.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizhe lizhe 24K 8月 26 11:48 compton.1.asciidoc
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizhe lizhe 2.0K 8月 26 11:48 compton-trans.1.asciidoc

Where is the compton.1 file ?

[tryone144]

It looks like you are missing the a2x executable on your system.
This should be part of the build-time dependency asciidoc (at least on arch-based distros it is).

[ImGamez]

Hi, Ubuntu 20.04 here, that's solved by installing the asciidoc-base package, which is arround ~300mb and installs 115 more packages :(.

An optional 'make install' without docs can be possible? It would speed up the build outside arch distros a lot!

[tryone144]

An optional 'make install' without docs can be possible? It would speed up the build outside arch distros a lot!

I don't really want to change the current default behavior. But feel free to edit the Makefile and remove the references to the manpages.

You can also give the actually maintained fork picom a try which does not generate the docs by default (see this fork for an improved implementation of the dual-kawase blur algorithm).