docs: by default, build docs a lot faster with Sphinx >= 1.7

Since Sphinx version 1.7, it is possible to use "-jauto" in order to speedup documentation builds. On older versions, while -j was already supported, one would need to set the number of threads manually. So, if SPHINXOPTS is not provided, add -jauto, in order to speed up the build. That makes it *a lot* times faster than without -j. If one really wants to slow things down, it can just use: make SPHINXOPTS=-j1 htmldocs Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> [ jc: fixed perl magic to determine sphinx version ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
torvalds · May 30, 2019 · cf08508 · cf08508
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diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),0)
 
 else # HAVE_SPHINX
 
+export SPHINXOPTS = $(shell perl -e 'open IN,"sphinx-build --version 2>&1 |"; while (<IN>) { if (m/([\d\.]+)/) { print "-jauto" if ($$1 >= "1.7") } ;} close IN')
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 # User-friendly check for pdflatex and latexmk
 HAVE_PDFLATEX := $(shell if which $(PDFLATEX) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
 HAVE_LATEXMK := $(shell if which latexmk >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)