Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:40:01 +0100 | Subject | Re: [Regression] Docs build broken by commit 51e46c7a4007 |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:49 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:44:35PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:05 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:50:47PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On two of my systems the docs build has been broken by commit > > > > 51e46c7a4007 ("docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations > > > > are made"). > > > > > > > > The symptom is that the build system complains about the "output" > > > > directory not being there and returns with an error. > > > > > > > > Reverting the problematic commit makes the problem go away. > > > > > > How strange! This must be some race in the parallel build. > > > > I don't think so, I didn't use -j with htmldocs builds. > > What version of Sphinx do you have?
1.6.5 (I realize that it is older than recommended, but it had been working fine before 5.5-rc1 :-)).
> > And you know what, adding "-j 2" to the command line actually makes it work. :-) > > Without a -j argument, the Documentation build has been using -jauto on > Sphinx itself.
Well, maybe this particular version of Sphinx has problems with that.
> > > AFAICT, "output" is made in the first sub-target (Documentation/media). This > > > doesn't look entirely stable (there's no ordering implied by the "all" > > > target in there)... > > > > > > Does this work for you? > > > > No, it doesn't. > > Well now I'm really baffled. What make target are you specifying? I was > assuming you were doing "make htmldocs"?
I've tried that too, but most often I do something like "make O=../build/somewhere/ htmldocs".
But I can do "make O=../build/somewhere/ -j 2 htmldocs" too just fine. :-)
Cheers!
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