[PATCH] doc: avoid using deprecated sphinx function

[Caleb Connolly]

On 14/11/2023 15:58, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 11/14/23 16:46, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 03:18:02PM +0000, Caleb Connolly wrote:
>>
>>> The execfile_() function in sphinx has been removed after being
>>> deprecated for some time. Follow what sphinx upstream does in [1] to
>>> avoid using this function. This fixes "make htmldocs" on at least Arch
>>> Linux but likely other distros too.
> 
> Hello Caleb,
> 
> Did you set up an environment as described in
> https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/build/documentation.html?

No, I used the version of the sphinx library included in my
distribution... Certainly this would have been a good place to check ><
> 
> Or did you try to build with other versions of packages than those
> described in doc/sphinx/requirements.txt?
> 
> It would well make sense to rework our requirements as the Sphinx 3.4.3
> we are using is getting dated.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich
> 
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/commit/9ced1e355ad6baecd4e755a598a54877dc0aad44
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <caleb.connolly at linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>> base-commit: 92b27528d777ce85362af45e7d2974a6c856219b
>>
>> I think we should cherry-pick:
>> commit 0283189e8f3d0917e2ac399688df85211f48447b
>> Author: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
>> Date:   Wed Jan 4 10:47:39 2023 -0700
>>
>>      docs: Fix the docs build with Sphinx 6.0
>>
>> from the kernel, to keep the file in-sync. That's the only commit to
>> load_config.py since I believe we synced last, but there might be other
>> changes in Documentation/sphinx/ to grab as well.

Ah, I wasn't aware that this was pulled from Linux, that makes a lot
more sense then :)
>>
> 

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