Re: [Qemu-devel] Recent python-sphinx errors out building doc

[John Snow]

On 6/18/19 7:37 PM, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Resent with correct address for John)
> I build recent upstream qemu in the openSUSE Build Service, and for
> the Factory repository there, python-sphinx was recently updated to
> version 2.1.1. This caused the build to fail as follows:
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/qemu-4.0.50/docs/interop/bitmaps.rst:202:Could
> not lex literal_block as "json". Highlighting skipped.
> 
> The python-sphinx tools is called with warnings are treated as errors
> it looks like. I don't know much at all about this tool, and hopefully
> someone knows what to fix here. If you want to give me a pointer
> on what needs to change, I could give a go at doing a fix however.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bruce

Hi, there's a series designed to fix this:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-06/msg00348.html

I think it's up to Peter to merge it as the maintainer of the Sphinx
machinery.

--js