On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:12:22AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 02:03:31PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:44:37 -0700 >> >> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> > While sphinx 1.7 and later supports "-jauto" for parallelism, this >> >> > effectively ignores the "-j" flag used in the "make" invocation, which >> >> > may cause confusion for build systems. Instead, extract the available >> >> >> >> What sort of confusion might we expect? Or, to channel akpm, "what are the >> >> user-visible effects of this bug"? >> > >> > When I run "make htmldocs -j16" with a pre-1.7 sphinx, it is not >> > parallelized. When I run "make htmldocs -j8" with 1.7+ sphinx, it uses >> > all my CPUs instead of 8. :) >> >> To be honest, part of the solution should be to require Sphinx 1.8 or >> later. Even Debian stable has it. If your distro doesn't have it >> (really?), using the latest Sphinx in a virtual environment should be a >> matter of: >> >> $ python3 -m venv .venv >> $ . .venv/bin/activate >> (.venv) $ pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme >> (.venv) $ make htmldocs > > I don't mind having sphinx 1.8 (I did, in fact, already update it), but > that still doesn't solve the whole problem: my -j argument is being > ignored... I meant, *part* of the solution should be to not have to deal with ancient Sphinx. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
