Re: [PATCH] Allow git builds of Sphinx

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:33:16 +0100
Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> When using a non-release version of Sphinx, from a local build (with
> improvements for kernel doc handling, why not),
> 
> 	sphinx-build --version
> 
> reports versions of the form
> 
> 	sphinx-build 3.0.0+/4703d9119972
> 
> i.e. base version, a plus symbol, slash, and the start of the git hash
> of whatever repository the command is run in (no, not the hash that
> was used to build Sphinx!).
> 
> This patch fixes the installation check in sphinx-pre-install to
> recognise such version output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Seems useful.  Applied, thanks.

jon