[Fedora-packaging] Re: Building the documentation of a package that must already be installed

[Miro Hrončok]

On 2.9.2018 10:58, Dan Čermák wrote:
>  Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes:
>  
> > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 10:39 AM Dan Čermák <dan.cermak(a)cgc-instruments.com&gt;
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I recently wanted to update the Fedora package of gcovr
> >> (https://github.com/gcovr/gcovr). However, I have hit the following
> >> problem: the gcovr doc is build via sphinx, but it won't build unless
> >> gcovr is installed, both the binary and the python package.
> >>
> >
> > Can't you fake some paths to python lib and binary so that documentation is
> > using those (built but not installed)?
>  
>  I think I can fake PYTHONPATH (which would fix the import errors), but
>  the documentation tries to run the gcovr binary, which is created by
>  setup.py install and not by setup.py build. 

As a workaround, I'd build the docs at the end of %install (with 
PYTHONPATH set to buildroot/sitelib and PATH to buildroot/bindir:$PATH). 
It's not perfect, but it should work. Certainly don't do it in %check.

Don't forget to add appropriate explanation in a comment.

# We can only build the docs after we've installed the gcovr binary

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