[En-Nut-Discussion] Building docs needs an insane amount of RAM

[Philipp Burch]

On 14.02.2018 16:47, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Burch <phip at hb9etc.ch> writes:
> 
>     Philipp> Hi everyone, I just wanted to rebuild the Ethernut source
>     Philipp> documentation to check some functions. But even with the 8GiB
>     Philipp> RAM plus 12GiB of swap space, it still runs out of memory. I
>     Philipp> suppose this is due to the large amount of vendor headers,
>     Philipp> especially for the STM32. Is there an easy way to exclude
>     Philipp> certain folders from the documentation generation process?
>     Philipp> Maybe this should be done for all vendor headers in general, as
>     Philipp> these probably do not offer much useful documentation when used
>     Philipp> in conjunction with Nut/OS anyway (which should hide the
>     Philipp> hardware details).
> 
> Philipp,
> 
> nut/doc/gen/nut_en.cfg contains some "EXCLUDE" statements. Perhaps adding
> something like */arch/*/vendor/* or */vendor/* to "EXCLUDE_PATTERNS" will do
> the job.
> 
> Bye
> 

Hi Uwe,

thanks for the hint! That solved it and also brought down the whole
folder size down from several Gigabytes to approx. 500MiB by excluding
the graphs as well.

Bye,
Philipp