[PATCH v2 2/5] scripts: sphinx-pre-install: report broken venv

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2022-07-02T10:11:45Z

After distro upgrades, the directory names for python may change.
On such case, the previously-created venv will be broken, and
sphinx-build won't run.

Add a logic to report it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
index ae8c49734899..18537e5af692 100755
--- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
+++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
@@ -720,6 +720,12 @@ sub get_virtenv()
next if (! -f $sphinx_cmd);

my $ver = get_sphinx_version($sphinx_cmd);
+
+ if (!$ver) {
+ $f =~ s#/bin/activate##;
+ print("Warning: virtual envionment $f is not working.\nPython version upgrade? Remove it with:\n\n\trm -rf $f\n\n");
+ }
+
if ($need_sphinx && ($ver ge $min_version)) {
return ($f, $ver);
} elsif ($ver gt $cur_version) {
--
2.36.1