Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: Add a section about supported architectures

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Jan 14 2021 - 12:55:00 EST


On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 6:36 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:19:59 -0800
> Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Patch looks fine, but `make -j htmldocs` seems to be taking forever
> > for me so I can't render it. Is this a known issue?
> >
> > $ make -j htmldocs
> > SPHINX htmldocs --> file:///android0/linux-next/Documentation/output
> > make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'html'.
> > WARNING: The kernel documentation build process
> > support for Sphinx v3.0 and above is brand new. Be prepared for
> > possible issues in the generated output.
>
> Sphinx 3.x is *way* slower to build the docs, alas. One of many
> "improvements" we got with that change.

Oh, man, yeah. Noticeably. I had sworn I had run `make htmldocs`
before. Have you had a chance to report this regression upstream?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers