On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having trouble with the Debian packaging of kernel documentation. > We try to build everything in a separate output directory (underneath > debian/build), but the new Sphinx-based build system writes to the > source directory. > > Firstly, Python creates bytecode files alongside the module sources. > This could be avoided by setting environment variable > PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1, at the expense of requiring recompilation > more often. I've sent the patch a few times. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479916579-17151-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx > Secondly, starting with 4.10, Documentation/media/Makefile converts > from dot to SVG and from SVG to PDF in the source directory. It seems > like it should be possible to put the converted files in the output > directory, but I don't know how to tell Sphinx to find them there. > > Are these issues likely to be fixed? > > Ben. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
