Thanks, this is a way to do it, though it will be expensive in time. Thanks for the feedback, at least I know I haven't overlooked something that's available.
--Ned. On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 5:59:31 PM UTC-5, Daniel Beck wrote: > > Hi Ned, > > I've had this problem myself. If you build a given Sphinx project pointing > to a not yet built .inv file (or files), Sphinx will issue a bunch of > warnings (e.g., `WARNING: intersphinx inventory > '../path_to_other_project/objects.inv' not fetchable` ) but Sphinx will > build the project's own .inv file successfully. So I do a two-pass build > that ignores warnings on the first pass and ignores the saved environment > on the second pass. It looks a bit like this (though there's an > overcomplicated fabfile to do this all for me): > > For each project, first pass, ignoring warnings: > > make SPHINXOPTS='-Q' html > > For each project, second pass (or more, if you're building additional > formats): > > make SPHINXOPTS='-E -n -W' html > > `-E` is the important part, forcing Sphinx to refetch the .inv file(s). I > like to use `-n` for nitpicky mode and `-W` to promote warnings to errors, > since I expect warnings in the first pass but would rather not have the > build succeed at all if there are unexpected warnings (your preferences—and > authorial discipline—may vary). > > You might also want to add `-q` because seeing the build progress over and > over gets old fast. > > A dedicated inventory builder would be nice to have, but this gets the job > done for me. I hope it helps solve your problem! > > > —Daniel > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> At edX, we're using intersphinx to link among our own projects. But it's >> designed to pull .inv files from readthedocs. This means if we add a new >> reference between projects, the build will fail until the target has been >> published. I tried using the second value in the mapping tuple to point to >> a local file, but the file hadn't been created yet. >> >> Is there a way to generate all the .inv files in a first pass, and then >> do the full build of the doc? >> >> --Ned. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sphinx-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sphinx-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sphinx...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.