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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/3/20 6:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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?

Correct.

> 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.

Here is the post where Eric commented it:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-04/msg00631.html

> thanks
> -- PMM