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Running "make htmldocs" on a newly installed Sphinx 7.3.7 ends up in
a build error:
Sphinx parallel build error:
AttributeError: module 'docutils.nodes' has no attribute 'reprunicode'
docutils 0.21 has removed nodes.reprunicode, quote from release note [1]:
* Removed objects:
docutils.nodes.reprunicode, docutils.nodes.ensure_str()
Python 2 compatibility hacks
Sphinx 7.3.0 supports docutils 0.21 [2]:
kernel_include.py, whose origin is misc.py of docutils, uses reprunicode.
Upstream docutils removed the offending line from the corresponding file
(docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py) in January 2022.
Quoting the changelog [3]:
Deprecate `nodes.reprunicode` and `nodes.ensure_str()`.
Drop uses of the deprecated constructs (not required with Python 3).
Do the same for kernel_include.py.
Tested against:
- Sphinx 2.4.5 (docutils 0.17.1)
- Sphinx 3.4.3 (docutils 0.17.1)
- Sphinx 5.3.0 (docutils 0.18.1)
- Sphinx 6.2.1 (docutils 0.19)
- Sphinx 7.2.6 (docutils 0.20.1)
- Sphinx 7.3.7 (docutils 0.21.2)
Link: http://www.docutils.org/RELEASE-NOTES.html#release-0-21-2024-04-09 [1]
Link: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html#release-7-3-0-released-apr-16-2024 [2]
Link: https://github.com/docutils/docutils/commit/c8471ce47a24 [3]
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/faf5fa45-2a9d-4573-9d2e-3930bdc1ed65@gmail.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.