Hi Matthias, and thanks very much! I should have followed the structure of the Makefile and put "-c sphinx" in "SPHINXOPTS".
But it is a bit confusing as you say, and point to. Also, "-M" is mentioned in the man page for sphinx-build but it only says that it must appear first - not that dir arguments must follow. Anyway, thank you very much for helping me with this, now I have put my conf..py in sphinx/ ! Br Emil lördag 30 mars 2024 kl. 08:52:55 UTC+1 skrev Matthias Geier: > Hi Emil. > > The lowercase "-c" is fine, but the problem is that the usage of "-M" > is brittle. > > See https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/man/sphinx-build.html#make-mode, > which mentions: > > """ > Sphinx only recognizes the -M option if it is used first, along with > the source and output directories, before any other options are > passed. > """ > > See also https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/6603. > > So if you move your "-c" argument after "$(BUILDDIR)", it should work. > > I think the "-M" option is very confusing (which is why I still prefer > not using it and selecting the builder with "-b"), and obviously the > error message is not at all helpful, and I hope this will be improved > in the future. > Also, it is still not even mentioned in the "--help" output. > > There have been a plethora of issues and PRs about this in the past, > this is a short selection: > > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/3196 > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/4320 > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/5618 > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/6938 > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/6939 > https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11656 > > cheers, > Matthias > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM Emil Karlén <emil.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, thanks for help, > > > > but the sphinx-build man page says it should be a lower case "-c": > > > > -c path > > Don't look for the conf.py in the source directory, but use the > > given configuration directory instead. Note that various other > > files and paths given by configuration values are expected to be > > relative to the configuration directory, so they will have to be > > present at this location too. > > > > New in version 0.3. > > > > -C Don't look for a configuration file; only take options via the > > -D option. > > > > New in version 0.5. > > > > I tried with capital "-C" but that doesn't work :( > > > > /Emil > > tisdag 19 mars 2024 kl. 08:14:24 UTC+1 skrev Steevie: > >> > >> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:54:25 -0700 (PDT), Emil Karlén wrote: > >> > >> > Hello! > >> > > >> > I want the Sphinx source root to be the root directory of the project, > >> > but have Sphinx conf.py in a subdirectory "sphinx". > >> > The Sphinx Makefile is in the project root dir, and I have added > >> > arguments > >> > -c sphinx > >> > to the Makefile. > >> It should be -C sphinx, with capital "C" > >> > >> HTH, > >> Stefano > >> > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sphinx-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sphinx-users...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/3cafe9ec-c2ad-4413-a46b-db90b6532b56n%40googlegroups.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/e32411c0-5d49-4db2-bd74-57b35d2b6ccbn%40googlegroups.com.
