Hi Jon, Sorry for resending this one. Two e-mails ended being encoded using base64 (*). The content of this series is identical. The only difference is that all patches including 05 and 15 are now in plain text (using 8bit encoding). This series does a major cleanup at docs Makefile by moving the actual doc build logic to a helper script (scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper). Such script was written in a way that it can be called either directly or via a makefile. When running via makefile, it will use GNU jobserver to ensure that, when sphinx-build is called, the number of jobs will match at most what it is specified by the "-j" parameter. The first 3 patches do a cleanup at scripts/jobserver-exec and moves the actual code to a library. Such library is used by both the jobserver-exec command line and by sphinx-build-wrappper. The change also gets rid of parallel-wrapper.sh, whose functions are now part of the wrapper code. I added two patches at the end adding an extra target: "mandocs". The patches came from a series I sent in separate with 2 patches. --- (*) I just converted by internal mailbomb script to Python, but EmailMessage is really tricky - I spent most of my time scratching my head to get it right - It has a confusing set of "policy" rules and two functions to generate messages. It turns that just using a good policy is not enough: one needs to use as_bytes() to avoid base64 encoding. --- v3: - rebased on the top of docs-next; - added two patches to build man files that were on a separate patch series. v2: - there's no generic exception handler anymore; - it moves sphinx-pre-install to tools/docs; - the logic which ensures a minimal Python version got moved to a library, which is now used by both pre-install and wrapper; - The first wrapper (05/13) doesn't contain comments (except for shebang and SPDX). The goal is to help showing the size increase when moving from Makefile to Python. Some file increase is unavoidable, as Makefile is more compact: no includes, multple statements per line, no argparse, etc; - The second patch adds docstrings and comments. It has almost the same size of the code itself; - I moved the venv logic to a third wrapper patch; - I fixed an issue at the paraller build logic; - There are no generic except blocks anymore. Mauro Carvalho Chehab (15): scripts/jobserver-exec: move the code to a class scripts/jobserver-exec: move its class to the lib directory scripts/jobserver-exec: add a help message scripts: sphinx-pre-install: move it to tools/docs tools/docs: sphinx-pre-install: move Python version handling to lib tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add a wrapper for sphinx-build tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add comments and blank lines tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add support to run inside venv docs: parallel-wrapper.sh: remove script docs: Makefile: document latex/PDF PAPER= parameter tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add an argument for LaTeX interactive mode tools/docs,scripts: sphinx-*: prevent sphinx-build crashes tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow building PDF files in parallel docs: add support to build manpages from kerneldoc output tools: kernel-doc: add a see also section at man pages Documentation/Makefile | 134 +--- Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 29 +- Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh | 33 - Makefile | 2 +- scripts/jobserver-exec | 88 +-- scripts/lib/jobserver.py | 149 +++++ scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py | 5 +- scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_output.py | 84 ++- scripts/split-man.pl | 28 - tools/docs/lib/python_version.py | 133 ++++ tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper | 731 +++++++++++++++++++++ {scripts => tools/docs}/sphinx-pre-install | 134 +--- 12 files changed, 1194 insertions(+), 356 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh create mode 100755 scripts/lib/jobserver.py delete mode 100755 scripts/split-man.pl create mode 100644 tools/docs/lib/python_version.py create mode 100755 tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper rename {scripts => tools/docs}/sphinx-pre-install (93%) -- 2.51.0