On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:12:22AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 02:03:31PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:44:37 -0700
Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.



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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center