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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-05-29 20:09:32 -0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-05-30 10:42:05 -0600
commita700767a7682d9bd237e927253274859aee075e7 (patch)
tree0bc37e2916f2120818fcc4a49f94801f4c8b812f /Documentation/doc-guide
parentcf08508d21ffae5aea6c7dcb771ebd28612c6120 (diff)
docs: requirements.txt: recommend Sphinx 1.7.9
As discussed at the linux-doc ML, while we'll still support version 1.3, it is time to recommend a more modern version. So, let's switch the minimal requirements to Sphinx 1.7.9, as it has the "-jauto" flag, with makes a lot faster when building documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst17
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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
index c039224b404e..4ba081f43e98 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ Sphinx Install
==============
The ReST markups currently used by the Documentation/ files are meant to be
-built with ``Sphinx`` version 1.3 or higher. If you desire to build
-PDF output, it is recommended to use version 1.4.6 or higher.
+built with ``Sphinx`` version 1.3 or higher.
There's a script that checks for the Sphinx requirements. Please see
:ref:`sphinx-pre-install` for further details.
@@ -56,13 +55,13 @@ or ``virtualenv``, depending on how your distribution packaged Python 3.
those expressions are written using LaTeX notation. It needs texlive
installed with amdfonts and amsmath in order to evaluate them.
-In summary, if you want to install Sphinx version 1.4.9, you should do::
+In summary, if you want to install Sphinx version 1.7.9, you should do::
- $ virtualenv sphinx_1.4
- $ . sphinx_1.4/bin/activate
- (sphinx_1.4) $ pip install -r Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt
+ $ virtualenv sphinx_1.7.9
+ $ . sphinx_1.7.9/bin/activate
+ (sphinx_1.7.9) $ pip install -r Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt
-After running ``. sphinx_1.4/bin/activate``, the prompt will change,
+After running ``. sphinx_1.7.9/bin/activate``, the prompt will change,
in order to indicate that you're using the new environment. If you
open a new shell, you need to rerun this command to enter again at
the virtual environment before building the documentation.
@@ -105,8 +104,8 @@ command line options for your distro::
You should run:
sudo dnf install -y texlive-luatex85
- /usr/bin/virtualenv sphinx_1.4
- . sphinx_1.4/bin/activate
+ /usr/bin/virtualenv sphinx_1.7.9
+ . sphinx_1.7.9/bin/activate
pip install -r Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt
Can't build as 1 mandatory dependency is missing at ./scripts/sphinx-pre-install line 468.