On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 8:09 PM ycproject <classenu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Execute make html in the project directory oldproject (this directory
> contains the cony.py file and index.rst file, as well as the Makefile file),
> making sure that no new html files are generated.
> 2. Copy the entire project directory oldproject to another disk and rename it
> to test.
> 3. Check the time attribute of the html file in the test/_build/html
> directory: stat index.html, and the output will be the time when the project
> directory was copied.
> 4. Three minutes later, in the test directory (this directory contains the
> cony.py file and the index.rst file, as well as the Makefile file), execute
> find . -name "*.html" -exec touch {} + command.
> 5. Check the time attribute of the html file in the test/_build/html
> directory: stat index.html, the output is the current time, which is about 4
> minutes later than the project directory copy time.
> 6. Execute make html in the test/ directory.
> 7. Result: All html files are regenerated.
>
> In the above process, the touch index.rst file was not executed in the test/
> directory.
>
> After that, I deleted the whole test directory, then repeated the above 7
> steps, but added one step before step 6: touch index.rst. Finally when make
> html, it still generated all the html files.
>
> After that, I deleted the whole new project directory and repeated the 7
> steps above again, but this time instead of using the touch command before
> the step6, I modified the content of the index.rst file in the test/
> directory: added some text. Finally when make html, it still generated all
> the html files.
>
> So, modifying the time property of the html file (atime mtime ctime) seems to
> be invalid for now.
Well, in my defense, I did say I wasn't certain. ;-)
I did see that Wol had suggested the same source for the trouble.
I cannot see how Sphinx and / or make would be able to determine which
files need regeneration without comparing dates... I don't think
there's any hidden cache or tmp directory...
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