Re: autodoc-build (such as sphinx) vs rpm sections

Miro Hrončok <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23. 06. 26 18:04, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 2026-06-18 15:46:42:
>> Am Do., 18. Juni 2026 um 15:20 Uhr schrieb Miro Hrončok <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> On 18. 06. 26 15:00, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>> Hi there
>>>>
>>>> Even after reading our packaging doc I'm wondering what's the proper
>>>> way to handle sphinx doc autogenerated from built sources.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is that %build is the section where all building should be
>>>> done, followed by %install and %check. Building the documentation
>>>> (e.g. using sphinx autodoc) is clearly a build step, but often
>>>> requires the build products, and often *installed* build products.
>>>>
>>>> [I came across an upstream which even calls "pip install" from
>>>> sphinx's docs/conf.py ... ]
>>>>
>>>> So, what do you guys do? Build docs in %install and point py/sphinx to
>>>> the installed sources? Build docs after the wheel and point py to
>>>> %{pyproject_whichone_please}? I somehow cannot find a solution without
>>>> failed imports being reported by sphinx.
>>>
>>> I usually try to do PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{_pyproject_wheeldir}/...whl -- it
>>> should work. If we need to make %{_pyproject_wheeldir} a public macro, we can.
>>
>> Cool, I didn't know that one can put a wheel on PYTHONPATH. Works!
>> [FTR: %{_pyproject_wheeldir} contains %{buildroot} already.]
>>
>> I'm still wondering how "bad" (policy, side-effects) building doc in
>> %install would be, but I don't need to in this case any more.
>>
> 
> Update: Works as reported for pure python wheels.

Oh, I forgot to mention that. Pure Python only. And packages that access data 
files on runtime by direct file access rather than importlib.resourecs also 
tend to blow up.

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