linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow git builds of Sphinx

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Message-ID: <20200205104038.7b27a94f@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:40:38 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git builds of Sphinx

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:33:16 +0100
Stephen Kitt <steve@....org> wrote:

> When using a non-release version of Sphinx, from a local build (with
> improvements for kernel doc handling, why not),
> 
> 	sphinx-build --version
> 
> reports versions of the form
> 
> 	sphinx-build 3.0.0+/4703d9119972
> 
> i.e. base version, a plus symbol, slash, and the start of the git hash
> of whatever repository the command is run in (no, not the hash that
> was used to build Sphinx!).
> 
> This patch fixes the installation check in sphinx-pre-install to
> recognise such version output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
> ---

Seems useful.  Applied, thanks.

jon