bitbake: docs: update README file after migrationg to Sphinx

(Bitbake rev: ec4c481a0c3a3ccd0ef0832f128afdc047876552)

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Nicolas Dechesne
2020-10-05 14:08:40 +02:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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If you want to find HTML versions of the BitBake manuals on the web, If you want to find HTML versions of the BitBake manuals on the web,
go to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Documentation. go to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Documentation.
Makefile Sphinx
======== ======
The Makefile processes manual directories to create HTML, PDF, The BitBake documentation was migrated from the original DocBook
tarballs, etc. Details on how the Makefile work are documented format to Sphinx based documentation for the Yocto Project 3.2
inside the Makefile. See that file for more information. release.
To build a manual, you run the make command and pass it the name Additional information related to the Sphinx migration, and guidelines
of the folder containing the manual's contents. for developers willing to contribute to the BitBake documentation can
For example, the following command run from the documentation directory be found in the Yocto Project Documentation README file:
creates an HTML and a PDF version of the BitBake User Manual.
The DOC variable specifies the manual you are making:
$ make DOC=bitbake-user-manual https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/README
template How to build the Yocto Project documentation
======== ============================================
Contains various templates, fonts, and some old PNG files.
tools Sphinx is written in Python. While it might work with Python2, for
===== obvious reasons, we will only support building the BitBake
Contains a tool to convert the DocBook files to PDF format. documentation with Python3.
Sphinx might be available in your Linux distro packages repositories,
however it is not recommend using distro packages, as they might be
old versions, especially if you are using an LTS version of your
distro. The recommended method to install Sphinx and all required
dependencies is to use the Python Package Index (pip).
To install all required packages run:
$ pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme pyyaml
To build the documentation locally, run:
$ cd documentation
$ make -f Makefile.sphinx html
The resulting HTML index page will be _build/html/index.html, and you
can browse your own copy of the locally generated documentation with
your browser.