Sorry about the delay in seeing this thread - Barry, I assume that this means that despite the pain you have at least some sort of working Sphinx. I hesitated to add anything related to Sphinx to the existing docs build (controlled by the makefiles) yet, but as more things are ported there that would make sense.
> Am 07.07.2020 um 14:18 schrieb Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev>: > > "Any Python package that you install with brew will install the Homebrew > Python build." > > Sure in general with python on Apple, but you ignored my statement: > > $ which sphinx-build > /usr/local/opt/sphinx-doc/bin/sphinx-build > ~/Src/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/interface (master=) arch-master > $ more /usr/local/opt/sphinx-doc/bin/sphinx-build > #!/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/3.0.4/libexec/bin/python3.8 > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > import re > import sys > from sphinx.cmd.build import main > > sphinx seems to be carrying around its own python internally, thus quite > rightly getting Jed upset about packaging on Apple of open source software. > Or perhaps I misunderstand that line. > > Barry > > >> On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:40 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalc...@gmail.com >> <mailto:dalc...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 05:37, Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev >> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>> wrote: >> >> My fault, for some reason sphinx from brew installed its own private >> python so I had to do the pip at that. >> >> >> Any Python package that you install with brew will install the Homebrew >> Python build. Start using that one, and forget about the system Python >> install. >> From brew you get `/usr/local/bin/python3`, and then you can freely `python3 >> -m pip install <package>` >> I further symlink `/usr/local/bin/{python|pip}3` to `~/bin/{python|pip}`, so >> I don't have to deal ever again with the EOLed system Apple Python 2. >> >> -- >> Lisandro Dalcin >> ============ >> Research Scientist >> Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) >> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) >> http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/ <http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/> >
