linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 08/19] tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add a wrapper for sphinx-build

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Message-ID: <87zfb1p0r3.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:38:56 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Jani Nikula
 <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, 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 v4 08/19] tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add a
 wrapper for sphinx-build

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 01:23:55PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> > 1. SPHINXDIRS. It needs a lot of magic to work, both before running
>> >    sphinx-build and after (inside conf.py);
>> 
>> Makes you wonder if that's the right solution to the original
>> problem. It was added as a kind of hack, and it stuck.
>
> The problem is, IMHO, due to the lack of flexibility of sphinx-build:
> It should have a way on it to do partial documentation builds.

A couple of times I have looked into using intersphinx, making each book
into an actually separate book.  The thing I always run into is that
doing a complete docs build, with working references, would require
building everything twice.  This is probably worth another attempt one
of these years...

jon