On Wed, 29 May 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since Sphinx version 1.7, it is possible to use "-jauto" in
> order to speedup documentation builds. On older versions,
> while -j was already supported, one would need to set the
> number of threads manually.
>
> So, if SPHINXOPTS is not provided, add -jauto, in order to
> speed up the build. That makes it *a lot* times faster than
> without -j.
>
> If one really wants to slow things down, it can just use:
>
> make SPHINXOPTS=-j1 htmldocs
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/Makefile | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> index 380e24053d6f..794233d05789 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),0)
>
> else # HAVE_SPHINX
>
> +SPHINXOPTS = $(shell perl -e 'open IN,"sphinx-build --version |"; while (<IN>) { if (m/([\d\.]+)/) { print "-jauto" if ($$1 >= "1.7") } ;} close IN')
> +
Setting SPHINXOPTS like this means you can't pass additional Sphinx
options without also dropping -jauto. Which means whenever you want to
use SPHINXOPTS for what it's meant for, you also need to provide -jauto
to get the same result.
BR,
Jani.
> # User-friendly check for pdflatex and latexmk
> HAVE_PDFLATEX := $(shell if which $(PDFLATEX) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
> HAVE_LATEXMK := $(shell if which latexmk >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
