Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)

Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-21T21:56:39Z

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

>> I have no idea why
>> they felt the need to employ it for Sphinx, but they did, so we need to
>> work with that kind of configuration. Meaning, really, I think we have
>> to just invoke sphinx-build directly rather than trying to control which
>> version of Python it may ultimately get.
>
> True, but if we ignore PYTHON3 env completely, this will break on
> other setups where sphinx is installed with a different python version
> (with includes OpenSUSE non-thumbleweed).

How do those setups work prior to your changes? We didn't have to do
that dance before, right? What makes it necessary now?

Thanks,

jon