Can't build docs

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:

> On Linux I can't build the docs.  Log below
> Simon
>

[snip]

> processing users_guide.tex... index license intro 8.2.1-notes 8.4.1-notes ghci runghc usage using using-warnings using-optimisation
> Exception occurred:
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/writers/__init__.py", line 77, in write
>     self.translate()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/writers/manpage.py", line 35, in translate
>     self.document.walkabout(visitor)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout
>     if child.walkabout(visitor):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout
>     if child.walkabout(visitor):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout
>     if child.walkabout(visitor):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout
>     if child.walkabout(visitor):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout
>     if child.walkabout(visitor):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 165, in walkabout
>     visitor.dispatch_visit(self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 1604, in dispatch_visit
>     return method(node)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/writers/manpage.py", line 345, in unknown_visit
>     raise NotImplementedError('Unknown node: ' + node.__class__.__name__)
> NotImplementedError: Unknown node: inline

Hmm, it sounds like this might be a real version incompatibility.
Perhaps we should have autoconf do a more strict version check of sphinx
and disable BUILD_SPHINX_{PDF,HTML} if too old a version is found.

Cheers,

- Ben

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