Re: [PATCH 02/29] configure: Check that sphinx-build is using Python 3

[Peter Maydell]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 07:51, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> > It might be sphinx-build-3 on RH, but on Debian/Ubuntu it's
> > just 'sphinx-build' assuming you installed the python3-sphinx
> > and not the python2-sphinx, or you can run it directly out of
> > /usr/share/sphinx/scripts/python3/sphinx-build, or (like
> > me) you might have a locally installed 'sphinx-build' which
> > is using Python 3. My assumption is that once the python2->3
> > transition has faded into the rear view mirror most distros
> > will just have a /usr/bin/sphinx-build that's a Python 3 one.
>
> Defaulting to sphinx-build-3 if it exists, else sphinx-build would be
> nicer for users on some common systems, and wouldn't hurt users on the
> other common systems.  It's what we do for Python.

Feel free to send a followup patch :-) I have no systems where
there is a 'sphinx-build-3' at all.

thanks
-- PMM