Hi Paolo, hi John,
since the recent reworks with the Python venv, building of the docs does not
work for me on my RHEL 8 installation anymore.
If I just run "configure" without any additional arguments, I get:
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$ ./configure
Using './build' as the directory for build output
python determined to be '/usr/bin/python3.8'
python version: Python 3.8.13
mkvenv: Creating non-isolated virtual environment at 'pyvenv'
mkvenv: checking for meson>=0.63.0
mkvenv: installing meson>=0.63.0
mkvenv: checking for sphinx>=1.6.0, sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.5.0
*** Ouch! ***
Could not provide build dependency 'sphinx>=1.6.0':
• Python package 'sphinx' was not found nor installed.
• mkvenv was configured to operate offline and did not check PyPI.
• 'sphinx-build' was detected on your system at '/usr/bin/sphinx-build',
but the Python package 'sphinx' was not found by this Python interpreter
('/usr/bin/python3.8'). Typically this means that 'sphinx-build' has been
installed against a different Python interpreter on your system.
Sphinx not found/usable, disabling docs.
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If I enable downloads and enforce --enable-docs , I get:
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./configure --enable-docs --enable-download
Using './build' as the directory for build output
python determined to be '/usr/bin/python3.8'
python version: Python 3.8.13
mkvenv: Creating non-isolated virtual environment at 'pyvenv'
mkvenv: checking for meson>=0.63.0
mkvenv: installing meson>=0.63.0
mkvenv: checking for sphinx>=1.6.0, sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.5.0
mkvenv: installing sphinx>=1.6.0, sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.5.0
ERROR: sphinx-rtd-theme 1.2.1 has requirement docutils<0.19, but you'll have
docutils 0.20.1 which is incompatible.
ERROR: sphinx-rtd-theme 1.2.1 has requirement sphinx<7,>=1.6, but you'll
have sphinx 7.0.1 which is incompatible.
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