Shadowsocks-libev: "asciidoc & xmlto" is too big

[s7lx]

dependence added asciidoc and xmlto.
but installing asciidoc &xmlto need install more than 700Mbs packages on debian or other like system

any way to decline it or compile without documents ?

[hosiet]

Here is a proposal:

Pre-compile asciidoc files into groff man pages and use generated man pages in simple installation, just like the current situation of configure and Makefile.in, both of which are generated in advance using an old version of autoconf / automake. Every time the asciidoc documentation files are changed, the person who makes the commit shall update the generated man pages.

As for the official building process (i.e., the official build for Debian), we can build with asciidoc from source files. The solution is similar for autotools-related files (using autoreconf and discard previous Makefile.in / configure script).

[wongsyrone]

@s7lx
To workaround this, you can try ./configure --disable-documentation.