linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tools/docs: sphinx-* break documentation bulds on openSUSE

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Message-ID: <aLh9HVd8_S9LvSgv@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 18:38:37 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
	Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tools/docs: sphinx-* break documentation bulds on
 openSUSE

On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Before this patch, building htmldocs on opensuseLEAP works
> fine:
> 
>     # make htmldocs
>     Available Python versions:
>       /usr/bin/python3.11
> 
>     Python 3.6.15 not supported. Changing to /usr/bin/python3.11
>     Python 3.6.15 not supported. Changing to /usr/bin/python3.11

[...]

> 1. after this change, sphinx-pre-install needs to be called
>    by hand:
> 
>     $ /usr/bin/python3.11 tools/docs/sphinx-pre-install
>     Detected OS: openSUSE Leap 15.6.
>     Sphinx version: 7.2.6

I thought the preferred option was to be able to specify:

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.11 make htmldocs

or even make htmldocs PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.11

like being able to specify CC, LD or AWK.