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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] doc-rst: generic way to build only sphinx
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:12:42 +0200
Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:

> Add a generic way to build only a reST sub-folder with or
> without a individual *build-theme*.
> 
> * control *sub-folders* by environment SPHINXDIRS
> * control *build-theme* by environment SPHINX_CONF
> 
> Folders with a conf.py file, matching $(srctree)/Documentation/*/conf.py
> can be build and distributed *stand-alone*. E.g. to compile only the
> html of 'media' and 'gpu' folder use::
> 
>   make SPHINXDIRS="media gpu" htmldocs
> 
> To use an additional sphinx-build configuration (*build-theme*) set the
> name of the configuration file to SPHINX_CONF. E.g. to compile only the
> html of 'media' with the *nit-picking* build use::
> 
>   make SPHINXDIRS=media SPHINX_CONF=conf_nitpick.py htmldocs
> 
> With this, the Documentation/conf.py is read first and updated with the
> configuration values from the Documentation/media/conf_nitpick.py.

So this patch appears to have had the undocumented effect of moving HTML
output from Documentation/output/html to Documentation/output.  I am
assuming that was not the intended result?

I'm not sure that we actually need the format-specific subfolders, but we
should be consistent across all the formats and in the documentation and,
as of this patch, we're not.

jon