Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tools/docs: sphinx-* break documentation bulds on openSUSE

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Wed, 3 Sep 2025 10:41:12 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.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