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authorJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2023-05-10 23:54:29 -0400
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2023-05-18 08:53:51 +0200
commit6f6652ebc2717b28c5788e6364c6dab09bb0ac44 (patch)
tree4f9ff0d7c22e8ba1639bac84504fedbe42e603ac /docs
parent6b0cedcdc7c52feda1a6b5d6c6f30356290af0ec (diff)
configure: bootstrap sphinx with mkvenv
When docs are explicitly requested, require Sphinx>=1.6.0. When docs are explicitly disabled, don't bother to check for Sphinx at all. If docs are set to "auto", attempt to locate Sphinx, but continue onward if it wasn't located. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230511035435.734312-22-jsnow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/conf.py9
-rw-r--r--docs/meson.build2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 00767b0e24..c687ff2663 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -32,15 +32,6 @@ import sphinx
from distutils.version import LooseVersion
from sphinx.errors import ConfigError
-# Make Sphinx fail cleanly if using an old Python, rather than obscurely
-# failing because some code in one of our extensions doesn't work there.
-# In newer versions of Sphinx this will display nicely; in older versions
-# Sphinx will also produce a Python backtrace but at least the information
-# gets printed...
-if sys.version_info < (3,6):
- raise ConfigError(
- "QEMU requires a Sphinx that uses Python 3.6 or better\n")
-
# The per-manual conf.py will set qemu_docdir for a single-manual build;
# otherwise set it here if this is an entire-manual-set build.
# This is always the absolute path of the docs/ directory in the source tree.
diff --git a/docs/meson.build b/docs/meson.build
index 6d0986579e..9040f860ae 100644
--- a/docs/meson.build
+++ b/docs/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-sphinx_build = find_program(get_option('sphinx_build'),
+sphinx_build = find_program(fs.parent(python.full_path()) / 'sphinx-build',
required: get_option('docs'))
# Check if tools are available to build documentation.