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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-07-14 13:41:18 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2017-07-17 13:18:24 -0600 |
| commit | 58ef4a42dd42580945985c533d4d5c3d6628ef92 (patch) | |
| tree | 24f1959ad170f01c1ae8b46e35a1f95b14409fbc /Documentation/doc-guide | |
| parent | b8b07b5c8dfc1fdf2f93d7419e0cac1034abc937 (diff) | |
sphinx.rst: explain the usage of virtual environment
As the Sphinx build seems very fragile, specially for
PDF output, add a notice about how to use it on a virtual
environment.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/doc-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst index 1ee109b19322..3278262164da 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst @@ -28,6 +28,38 @@ The ReST markups currently used by the Documentation/ files are meant to be built with ``Sphinx`` version 1.3 or upper. If you're desiring to build PDF outputs, it is recommended to use version 1.4.6 or upper. +Most distributions are shipped with Sphinx, but its toolchain is fragile, +and it is not uncommon that upgrading it or some other Python packages +on your machine would cause the documentation build to break. + +A way to get rid of that is to use a different version than the one shipped +on your distributions. In order to do that, it is recommended to install +Sphinx inside a virtual environment, using ``virtualenv-3`` +or ``virtualenv``, depending on how your distribution packaged Python 3. + +.. note:: + + #) Sphinx versions below 1.5 don't work properly with Python's + docutils version 0.13.1 or upper. So, if you're willing to use + those versions, you should run ``pip install 'docutils==0.12'``. + + #) It is recommended to use the RTD theme for html output. Depending + on the Sphinx version, it should be installed in separate, + with ``pip install sphinx_rtd_theme``. + +In summary, if you want to install Sphinx version 1.4.9, you should do:: + + $ virtualenv sphinx_1.4 + $ . sphinx_1.4/bin/activate + (sphinx_1.4) $ pip install 'docutils==0.12' + (sphinx_1.4) $ pip install 'Sphinx==1.4.9' + (sphinx_1.4) $ pip install sphinx_rtd_theme + +After running ``. sphinx_1.4/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. + .. note:: Please notice that, for PDF and LaTeX output, you'll also need ``XeLaTeX`` |