Re: [PULL v8 00/86] Misc QEMU patches for 2020-09-24

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 06:27:35PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/10/20 17:58, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> >>
> > 
> > cd442a45db60a1a72fcf980c24bd1227f13f8a87 is the first bad commit
> > 
> > Sorry for noticing this earlier, but is this known? The build starts
> > failing for me after this commit:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/sphinx-build -Dversion=5.1.50 -Drelease= -W
> > -Ddepfile=docs/devel.d -Ddepfile_stamp=docs/devel.stamp -b html -d
> > /home/zippy/work/qemu/qemu.git/build/docs/devel.p
> > /home/zippy/work/qemu/qemu.git/docs/devel
> > /home/zippy/work/qemu/qemu.git/build/docs/devel
> > Running Sphinx v3.2.1
> > building [mo]: targets for 0 po files that are out of date
> > building [html]: targets for 20 source files that are out of date
> > updating environment: [new config] 20 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
> > reading sources... [100%] testing
> 
> No, this is new.  It works with older versions of Sphinx (I have 2.2.2
> despite being on Fedora 32 which is pretty recent).
> 
> For now Sphinx 3 is not supported by kerneldoc, we probably should apply
> a patch like
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg83277.html

Weird, because we don't use the cdomain extension, and the patch
above only disables the cdomain extension.

In either case, supporting only Sphinx 2.x by now sounds
reasonable.  virtualenv+pip makes it simple to install and run a
specific Sphinx version, for people who really need it.

-- 
Eduardo