I ran the build.sh to create the plugin and in the first lines I saw an error with generating the adt-manual documentation: $ ECLIPSE_HOME=/home/humberto/eclipse-poky/scripts/eclipse ./build.sh -l master master master 2>&1 | tee -a build.log Cloning into '/home/humberto/eclipse-poky/scripts/master_build_201605111108/src'... Checking out master Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Generate Yocto documentation Cloning into '/home/humberto/eclipse-poky/scripts/master_build_201605111108/src/docs'... Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. ******** Building eclipse help of yocto-project-qs cd yocto-project-qs && \ xsltproc --xinclude \ --stringparam base.dir 'html/yocto-project-qs/' \ -o eclipse/yocto-project-qs.html \ yocto-project-qs-eclipse-customization.xsl yocto-project-qs.xml && \ mv eclipse/toc.xml eclipse/yocto-project-qs-toc.xml && \ cp -rf figures eclipse/html/yocto-project-qs/ && \ cd ..; ******** Using eclipse-help.sed to process external links ERROR: You can only create eclipse documentation of the following documentation parts: - sdk-manual - bsp-guide - dev-manual - kernel-dev - profile-manual - ref-manual - yocto-project-qs ******** Using eclipse-help.sed to process external links cp: cannot stat ‘adt-manual/eclipse/html/*’: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat ‘adt-manual/eclipse/adt-manual-toc.xml’: No such file or directory . . . Checked a bit into this and seems like the generate-doc.sh script is explicitly trying to generate the docs: DOCS="yocto-project-qs adt-manual kernel-dev \ bsp-guide ref-manual dev-manual profile-manual" Even so, the docs have stopped supporting the adt-manual documentation with commit d2084cc95ac185d7e4e19b633739c8ea27cd268a. The make file for the docs no longer includes adt-manual. This specific error can be fixed, but some other similar errors might come out later. It seems to me that the best way to go would be for generate-docs.sh to dynamically retrieve the available docs, and only attempt to make those documentations that are available in the documentation branch given.
In addition, the generate-doc.sh script should be building sdk-manual now (since commit ab591831a97a97d405d13ed75e9fb01e0452c292)
The references to "adt-manual" in plugins/org.yocto.doc.user/plugin.xml, toc.xml and about.html.in will also have be changed. This means we will have to change those files before the plugin is built. Luckily generate-doc.sh runs at the right time for this. For older releases, generate-doc.sh will need to patch the files. The default for "master", "krogoth" and "yocto-2.1" (planned) branches/tags will be sdk-manual.
This approach of whitelisting the branches/tags which build sdk-manual is brittle. Every time a new tag or branch for yocto-docs is created the check would have to be updated. If we only had branches to worry about, we could 'git branch -r --contains <commitish>', but this won't be valid for tags or cherry-picks. Humberto's original idea of checking the output of the make command probably makes the most sense, assuming the check in the Makefile exists of course.
Patch: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2016-June/030385.html
Merged.