From a700767a7682d9bd237e927253274859aee075e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 20:09:32 -0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/doc-guide') 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. -- cgit