linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)

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Message-ID: <20250921234301.0110130d@foz.lan>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:43:01 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
 Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing
 List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "open list:DOCUMENTATION"
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)

Em Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:44:48 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:
> 
> > do you know what is this "alts" file? Is it a custom script or
> > binary?  
> 
> It's the alternatives mechanism that openSUSE uses. 

See my RFC patch. It fixes the issue when PYTHON3 is not explicitly set.

> I have no idea why
> they felt the need to employ it for Sphinx, but they did, so we need to
> work with that kind of configuration.  Meaning, really, I think we have
> to just invoke sphinx-build directly rather than trying to control which
> version of Python it may ultimately get.

True, but if we ignore PYTHON3 env completely, this will break on
other setups where sphinx is installed with a different python version
(with includes OpenSUSE non-thumbleweed).

Thanks,
Mauro