Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build

Jonathan Corbet
2019-06-26T17:54:13Z

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:25:07 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> Build of htmldocs fails for out-of-tree builds:
>
> $ make V=1 O=~/build/kernel/ htmldocs
> make -C /home/rppt/build/kernel -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/Makefile htmldocs
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rppt/build/kernel'
> make -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
> rm -f .tmp_quiet_recordmcount
> make -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/Makefile.build obj=Documentation htmldocs
> Can't open Documentation/conf.py at /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/sphinx-pre-install line 230.
> /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/Documentation/Makefile:80: recipe for target 'htmldocs' failed
> make[2]: *** [htmldocs] Error 2
>
> The scripts/sphinx-pre-install is trying to open files in the current
> directory which is $KBUILD_OUTPUT rather than in $srctree.
>
> Fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.

jon