Re: [PATCH-for-5.0?] configure: Do not leave sphinx in-tree artifacts

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 17:54, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> When ./configure checks the sphinx version is new enough, it leaves
> the docs/sphinx/__pycache__/ directory. Avoid this by using the '-B'
> option (don't write .py[co] files on import) via the
> PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE environment variable.
>
> Reported-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

This only happens for an in-tree build, right? I think in
that case you're kind of OK with having random stuff
left in the source tree... It seems easy enough to suppress
them though, so I guess we might as well.

thanks
-- PMM