configure: bootstrap sphinx with mkvenv

When docs are explicitly requested, require Sphinx>=1.6.0. When docs are
explicitly disabled, don't bother to check for Sphinx at all. If docs
are set to "auto", attempt to locate Sphinx, but continue onward if it
wasn't located.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230511035435.734312-22-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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John Snow 2023-05-10 23:54:29 -04:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 6b0cedcdc7
commit 6f6652ebc2
5 changed files with 20 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -32,15 +32,6 @@ import sphinx
from distutils.version import LooseVersion
from sphinx.errors import ConfigError
# Make Sphinx fail cleanly if using an old Python, rather than obscurely
# failing because some code in one of our extensions doesn't work there.
# In newer versions of Sphinx this will display nicely; in older versions
# Sphinx will also produce a Python backtrace but at least the information
# gets printed...
if sys.version_info < (3,6):
raise ConfigError(
"QEMU requires a Sphinx that uses Python 3.6 or better\n")
# The per-manual conf.py will set qemu_docdir for a single-manual build;
# otherwise set it here if this is an entire-manual-set build.
# This is always the absolute path of the docs/ directory in the source tree.