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Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:44:44 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pyc files in source dir with O=

Hi Jani,

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> When running "make htmldocs O=/path/to/somewhere", *.pyc files end up
>> in the source tree instead of in the build tree:
>>
>>     $ git ls-files -o
>>     Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.pyc
>>     Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.pyc
>>     Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.pyc
>>     $
>>
>> This is with v4.8-rc5.
>>
>> With next-20160907, two more files appear:
>>
>>     Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.pyc
>>     Documentation/sphinx/load_config.pyc
>
> This should help
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> index 92deea30b183..a4cba2d1aaf1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ loop_cmd = $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1))
>
>  quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@ --> file://$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/$3/$4);
>        cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/media all;\
> +       PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
>         BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) SPHINX_CONF=$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5/$(SPHINX_CONF)) \
>         $(SPHINXBUILD) \
>         -b $2 \

Thanks, that works (on next-20160907, doesn't apply to v4.8-rc5).
But IMHO it's a bit drastic. There's no way to let python create them in the
build directory instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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