Re: [PATCH RFC] configure: prefer sphinx-build to sphinx-build-3

[Alex Bennée]

John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/15/20 1:55 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 18:33, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> sphinx-build is the name of the script entry point from the sphinx
>>> package itself. sphinx-build-3 is a pacakging convention by Linux
>>> distributions. Prefer, where possible, the canonical package name.
>> 
>> This was Markus's code originally; cc'ing him.
>> 
>> (Incidentally I think when we say "Linux distributions" we
>> really mean "Red Hat"; Debian/Ubuntu don't use the "sphinx-build-3" name.)
>> 
>
> I'll take your word for it :)
>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>> (rest of email untrimmed for context)
>> 
>
> My only goal here is that if you are using a virtual environment with
> sphinx installed that it prefers that, so non-standard names need to
> come last.
>
> There's probably 10,000,000 ways to do that, hence the RFC.

What's wrong with just passing --sphinx-build=sphinx-build in your
configure string? It will override whatever we auto-detect AFAICT.

-- 
Alex Bennée