tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add support to run inside venv

Sometimes, it is desired to run Sphinx from a virtual environment.
Add a command line parameter to automatically build Sphinx from
such environment.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <e34fa63a61e75a0ec86b37c9b5fafa6677f44c6c.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
index 103b0044bb0b1a2619243503a3baa1a732a86333..6ed3d58ec277bf84ff6dfbd73c6c689787bd2358 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
+++ b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ from jobserver import JobserverExec         # pylint: disable=C0413,C0411,E0401
 #
 #  Some constants
 #
+VENV_DEFAULT = "sphinx_latest"
 MIN_PYTHON_VERSION = PythonVersion("3.7").version
 PAPER = ["", "a4", "letter"]
 
@@ -171,8 +172,10 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
         if not verbose:
             self.sphinxopts += ["-q"]
 
-    def __init__(self, builddir, verbose=False, n_jobs=None, interactive=None):
+    def __init__(self, builddir, venv=None, verbose=False, n_jobs=None,
+                 interactive=None):
         """Initialize internal variables"""
+        self.venv = venv
         self.verbose = None
 
         #
@@ -220,6 +223,21 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
 
         self.get_sphinx_extra_opts(n_jobs)
 
+        #
+        # If venv command line argument is specified, run Sphinx from venv
+        #
+        if venv:
+            bin_dir = os.path.join(venv, "bin")
+            if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join(bin_dir, "activate")):
+                sys.exit(f"Venv {venv} not found.")
+
+            # "activate" virtual env
+            self.env["PATH"] = bin_dir + ":" + self.env["PATH"]
+            self.env["VIRTUAL_ENV"] = venv
+            if "PYTHONHOME" in self.env:
+                del self.env["PYTHONHOME"]
+            print(f"Setting venv to {venv}")
+
     def run_sphinx(self, sphinx_build, build_args, *args, **pwargs):
         """
         Executes sphinx-build using current python3 command.
@@ -254,7 +272,12 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
             if self.n_jobs:
                 n_jobs = str(self.n_jobs)
 
-            cmd = [sys.executable, sphinx_build]
+            if self.venv:
+                cmd = ["python"]
+            else:
+                cmd = [sys.executable,]
+
+            cmd += [sphinx_build]
             cmd += [f"-j{n_jobs}"]
             cmd += self.sphinxopts
             cmd += build_args
@@ -772,12 +795,16 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('-i', '--interactive', action='store_true',
                         help="Change latex default to run in interactive mode")
 
+    parser.add_argument("-V", "--venv", nargs='?', const=f'{VENV_DEFAULT}',
+                        default=None,
+                        help=f'If used, run Sphinx from a venv dir (default dir: {VENV_DEFAULT})')
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     PythonVersion.check_python(MIN_PYTHON_VERSION, show_alternatives=True,
                                bail_out=True)
 
-    builder = SphinxBuilder(builddir=args.builddir,
+    builder = SphinxBuilder(builddir=args.builddir, venv=args.venv,
                             verbose=args.verbose, n_jobs=args.jobs,
                             interactive=args.interactive)