Re: [PATCH 6/7] CI: Stop building docs on centos8

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/2/23 16:40, John Snow wrote:
> CentOS 8 does not ship with a sphinx new enough for our purposes (It
> necessarily uses Python 3.6), so drop this from this build. We can
> resume building docs on CentOS 9 if we wish, but we also currently test
> and build docs on Fedora, Ubuntu, Alpine and Debian.

I guess remember this wide collection is on purpose, since sphinx
had different dependency versions and was failing differently on each
distrib. Peter might remember.

> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> index 0aa149a3524..0eb7f6606d4 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ build-system-centos:
>     variables:
>       IMAGE: centos8

If so (wide distrib collection), a "Please add --enable-docs when
upgrading to centos9" comment here.

>       CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-nettle --enable-gcrypt --enable-fdt=system
> -      --enable-modules --enable-trace-backends=dtrace --enable-docs
> +      --enable-modules --enable-trace-backends=dtrace
>         --enable-vfio-user-server
>       TARGETS: ppc64-softmmu or1k-softmmu s390x-softmmu
>         x86_64-softmmu rx-softmmu sh4-softmmu nios2-softmmu