Re: Sphinx builds always write to the source directory

From	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Sphinx builds always write to the source directory
Date	2017-01-31 09:10 +0100
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the Debian packaging of kernel documentation. 
> We try to build everything in a separate output directory (underneath
> debian/build), but the new Sphinx-based build system writes to the
> source directory.
>
> Firstly, Python creates bytecode files alongside the module sources. 
> This could be avoided by setting environment variable
> PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1, at the expense of requiring recompilation
> more often.

I've sent the patch a few times.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479916579-17151-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com

> Secondly, starting with 4.10, Documentation/media/Makefile converts
> from dot to SVG and from SVG to PDF in the source directory.  It seems
> like it should be possible to put the converted files in the output
> directory, but I don't know how to tell Sphinx to find them there.
>
> Are these issues likely to be fixed?
>
> Ben.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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Sphinx builds always write to the source directory Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-01-31 00:00 +0100
  Re: Sphinx builds always write to the source directory Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-31 09:10 +0100
    Re: Sphinx builds always write to the source directory Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2017-01-31 18:30 +0100
      [PATCH RESEND] Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2017-01-31 19:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc  files in the source tree Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2017-02-01 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2017-02-03 16:00 +0100

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