On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 10:55 -0400, Lance Richardson wrote:
> > From: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org>
> > To: "Lance Richardson" <lrich...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Leif Madsen" <lmad...@redhat.com>, "ovs dev" <dev@openvswitch.
> > org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 26 April, 2017 10:33:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC 2/4] doc: Convert ovs-vlan-test to rST
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:03:55PM -0400, Lance Richardson wrote:
> > > I ran into this a little while ago. The problem in my case was
> > > that
> > > sphinx-build
> > > was not installed, so these man pages were not being built (seems
> > > odd that
> > > this
> > > would not cause a build failure...)
> > > 
> > > Doing "yum install python-sphinx" let me build the rpms
> > > successfully once
> > > again. Seems we should add "BuildRequires: python-sphinx" to the
> > > spec file.
> > 
> > Huh.  Somehow I thought that we'd made Sphinx an overall build
> > requirement.  Maybe that's the right thing to do.
> > 
> 
> The rules to build rst-formatted man pages in the top-level
> Makefile.in are predicated on HAVE_SPHINX_TRUE, which does give the
> impression that Sphinx is optional.
> 
>    Lance

Yup, it's optional since these were only used for HTML docs initially.
I didn't change that as HAVE_GROFF is also a thing, afaict, and I
wasn't sure if man pages were essential. Maybe they should be now.

Stephen
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