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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-05-29 20:09:32 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-05-30 10:42:05 -0600 |
| commit | a700767a7682d9bd237e927253274859aee075e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bc37e2916f2120818fcc4a49f94801f4c8b812f /Documentation/doc-guide | |
| parent | cf08508d21ffae5aea6c7dcb771ebd28612c6120 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/doc-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
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. |