After distro upgrades, the directory names for python may change. On such case, the previously-created venv will be broken, and sphinx-build won't run. Add a logic to report it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> --- To avoid mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover. See [PATCH v2 0/5] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1656756450.git.mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx/ scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install index ae8c49734899..18537e5af692 100755 --- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install +++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install @@ -720,6 +720,12 @@ sub get_virtenv() next if (! -f $sphinx_cmd); my $ver = get_sphinx_version($sphinx_cmd); + + if (!$ver) { + $f =~ s#/bin/activate##; + print("Warning: virtual envionment $f is not working.\nPython version upgrade? Remove it with:\n\n\trm -rf $f\n\n"); + } + if ($need_sphinx && ($ver ge $min_version)) { return ($f, $ver); } elsif ($ver gt $cur_version) { -- 2.36.1
