On Wed, 29 May 2019 20:20:05 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+sams...@kernel.org> wrote:
> > So this totally fails to work for me with any version of sphinx, and I'm
> > not enough of a Perl person to figure it out. Sometimes I'll see the
> > sphinx-build output, i.e.:
> >
> > sphinx-build 1.8.4
> >
> > and sometimes (like with 2.0) I don't, but I never get -jauto regardless.
>
> Hmm... with 2.0.0 --version prints the version.
>
> $ sphinx-build --version
> sphinx-build 2.0.0
Yup. The point is that I see the sphinx-build output *in the docs-build
output", not when I run it standalone (where it does the expected thing).
> > Not sure what's going on here?
>
> Do you have SPHINXOPTS already set on your environment? If so, Makefile
> will not override the existing environment.
Yeah, I had it set to -j1 because I want to wait as long as possible for my
docs builds :)
No, I didn't have it set separately, made a point of that.
> Here, if I call it by hand (replacing $$1 by $1), it does the right
> thing. For example:
>
> 1.8.4:
>
> $ sphinx-build --version
> sphinx-build 1.8.4
> $ perl -e 'open IN,"sphinx-build --version |"; while (<IN>) { if
> (m/([\d\.]+)/) { print "-jauto\n" if ($1 >= "1.7") } ;} close IN'
> -jauto
$ perl -e 'open IN,"sphinx-build --version |"; while (<IN>) { if (m/([\d\.]+)/)
{ print "-jauto\n" if ($1 >= "1.7") } ;} close IN'
sphinx-build 1.8.4
$
It works properly with 2.0.1 - but only on the command line; I still don't
get the right behavior in a docs build.
Most weird.
This is an Fedora 30 system, FWIW.
jon
