Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: allow sphinx build with no DPDK version

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:42 AM Anatoly Burakov
<anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, when building sphinx documentation, the build will only
> succeed if being run from the build system, because the conf.py script
> expects DPDK_VERSION environment variable to be set, and crashes if it
> is not.
>
> However, there are certain external tools (such as sphinx documentation
> preview extensions for certain IDE's) that use live preview and thus
> rely on running their own sphinx commands. In these cases, it is useful
> to permit building sphinx documentation without specifying the
> DPDK_VERSION environment variable. The version string is the only thing
> preventing manual sphinx build commands from working.
>
> Fix the conf.py to use "None" as a version string in cases when
> DPDK_VERSION environment variable is not set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

So now, no excuse for documentation patches that fail to build :-).

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand