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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> | 2022-07-02 12:11:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-07-07 20:47:34 +0200 |
| commit | 02bba8ca90b1877ae47400c31002ceb498b0dd9f (patch) | |
| tree | bf10a18564bdc598c376163acfa0cf2906f6b7cc /scripts/sphinx-pre-install | |
| parent | scripts: sphinx-pre-install: provide both venv and package installs (diff) | |
| download | linux-02bba8ca90b1877ae47400c31002ceb498b0dd9f.tar.xz linux-02bba8ca90b1877ae47400c31002ceb498b0dd9f.zip | |
scripts: sphinx-pre-install: place a warning for Sphinx >= 3.0
Newer versions of Sphinx have a known bug:
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/8313
Those currently produces 11 false-positive warnings On Sphinx
version 3.1+.
While Sphinx fix is not applied, let's warn adventurers that would
be using Sphinx installed via distro packages.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/085e0ada65c11da9303d07e70c510dc45f21315b.1656756450.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/sphinx-pre-install')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install index b9b7d5e301f4..ec84fc62774e 100755 --- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install +++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install @@ -902,6 +902,10 @@ sub recommend_sphinx_version($) $need = $old_need; $optional = $old_optional; + printf "\n Please note that Sphinx >= 3.0 will currently produce false-positive\n"; + printf " warning when the same name is used for more than one type (functions,\n"; + printf " structs, enums,...). This is known Sphinx bug. For more details, see:\n"; + printf "\thttps://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/8313\n"; } sub check_needs() |