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Building the sphinx docs fails with the latest sphinx version #7938
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@SolidWallOfCode shared his Python virtualenv with me in which he is able to successfully build. I've verified that pinning the sphinx package to 2.3.1 instead of the latest 4.0.2 causes the build to succeed:
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I've verified that the latest 3.x sphinx release (3.5.4) from two months ago builds our docs fine:
Thus this issue is only experience for those building with the latest 4.x release (their master branch). To unblock people building the docs I'll create a PR with that pin and in the meantime investigate whether this is an issue with our docs not working well with sphinx 4.x or a bug with sphinx itself. |
I filed an issue dowht doc/sphinx about this build failure. We'll see what they say: |
With the latest Sphinx version (mine was 4.0.2),
make html
from the docs directory fails with this error:This can be reproduced via our CI's centos:8 docker image like so:
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