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Message-ID: <20250903211735.5a541530@foz.lan>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 21:17:35 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.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

Em Wed, 3 Sep 2025 10:41:12 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> escreveu:

> On 9/3/25 9:24 AM, 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
> >     Using alabaster theme
> >     Using Python kernel-doc
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> > As the logic detects that Python 3.6 is too old and recommends
> > intalling python311-Sphinx. If installed, documentation builds
> > work like a charm.
> > 
> > Yet, some develpers complained that running python3.11 instead
> > of python3 should not happen. So, let's break the build to make
> > them happier:
> > 
> >     $ make htmldocs
> >     Python 3.6.15 not supported. Bailing out
> >     You could run, instead:
> >       /usr/bin/python3.11 /root/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper htmldocs --sphinxdirs=. --conf=conf.py --theme= --css= --paper=  
> 
>                             /root
> ??

heh, you got me :-D

I ran it on an opensuse Leap container, created only to test builds.
I didn't care enough to create any user on such test containers, just
running everything there as root via lxc-attach, as, at the worse case
scenario, I can just re-run the script to re-create it.


Thanks,
Mauro