Re: [PULL 00/10] For 6.0 patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 15:17, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
>>
>> This produces a backtrace from sphinx-build which nonetheless doesn't
>> cause a build failure:
>>
>>
>> Program sphinx-build found: YES
>> ../docs/meson.build:30: WARNING: /usr/bin/sphinx-build:
>> Configuration error:
>> There is a programable error in your configuration file:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "conf.py", line 154, in <module>
>>     import sphinx_rtd_theme
>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
>>
>> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 157, in 
>> __init__
>>     execfile_(filename, config)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/util/pycompat.py", line
>> 150, in execfile_
>>     exec_(code, _globals)
>>   File "conf.py", line 157, in <module>
>>     'The Sphinx \'sphinx_rtd_theme\' HTML theme was not found.\n'
>> sphinx.errors.ConfigError: The Sphinx 'sphinx_rtd_theme' HTML theme
>> was not found.
>>
>
>
> ../docs/meson.build:30: WARNING: /usr/bin/sphinx-build-3:
> Configuration error:
> The Sphinx 'sphinx_rtd_theme' HTML theme was not found.
>
> ../docs/meson.build:32:6: ERROR: Problem encountered: Install a Python 3 
> version of python-sphinx and the readthedoc theme


So why do you get that message, and I see the above? Older
sphinx-build ?

Also, if this isn't fatal (the build does continue), meson
shouldn't print ERROR here, ideally.

>> Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)
>>
>>
>> In particular I see that on all the BSD VMs. If we're going to
>> require rtd that means we need to ensure it's present on all
>> the VM configs, docker configs, everything the CI uses, etc.
>> You should also flag up new build-deps in the pullreq cover
>> letter.
>
>
> I updated all docker configs. We don't have sphinx in the BSD VMs apparently, 
> am I wrong?

We must do, because trying to build this merge in the VMs produces
errors from sphinx-build...

-- PMM