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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:27:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cy7jbo7f.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2112be7-ba68-43d1-92ba-98adfb869a95@infradead.org>

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 11 01:42 /usr/bin/sphinx-build -> alts*
>
> $ file  /usr/bin/alts
> /usr/bin/alts: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.3.0, BuildID[sha1]=17681640c9985eb36ae6d9eca0f08159509386c4, stripped

That is clearly the problem, when combined with this code in
sphinx-build-wrapper:

>             if self.venv:
>                 cmd = ["python"]
>             else:
>                 cmd = [sys.executable,]
> 
>             cmd += [sphinx_build]

Mauro, what is the reason for explicitly interposing the interpreter
there rather than just invoking the sphinx-build binary directly?  It
seems like we could take that out and make this problem go away?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-21 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <aM1xVa_SX3_QFU_q@sirena.org.uk>
2025-09-21  0:17 ` linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem) Randy Dunlap
2025-09-21  8:43   ` Akira Yokosawa
2025-09-21 14:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-21 15:59     ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-21 19:27       ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-09-21 20:32         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-09-21 20:44           ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-21 21:43             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-09-21 21:56               ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-21 22:06                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-09-21 21:10           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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