Re: [PATCH RFC] configure: prefer sphinx-build to sphinx-build-3

[John Snow]

On 4/16/20 3:16 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 19:22, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My goal is to make virtual environments work out of the box.
>>
>> I.e., if you run ./configure from inside a VENV, it should "just work."
> 
> Yeah, this seems reasonable to me. If I understand your
> patch correctly it ought to work without breaking
> the setup Markus describes, because in that case
> 'sphinx-build' exists but will fail the test_sphinx_build
> step (because it's a Python 2 sphinx-build) and we'll
> then move on and use sphinx-build-3.
> 
> Patch looks good to me, but you'll need to rebase and update it
> to take account of commits 516e8b7d4a and 988ae6c3a7
> now in master.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 

OK, Done.

--js