Recent changes to 508: qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Thomas Klausner — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:28:08 -0000

Thank you for the fixes.
Not sure if the following is worth a new ticket, so I thought I'd mention it here:
The 0.22.1 tarball includes a backup file (that also gets installed):

docutils/.__init__.py.swp

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Günter Milde — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:41:29 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Günter Milde — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:30:03 -0000

Thank you for testing. so it should be fine with Docutils 0.22.1.rc1.

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Thomas Klausner — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:05:45 -0000

Just to confirm, with the code changes between 0.22 and r10233 applied to 0.22, qemu still builds.

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Günter Milde — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:55:52 -0000

status: open --> open-fixed

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Günter Milde — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:23:07 -0000

Good news.
The remaining warnings are from a different issue (see the comment by Peter Maydell).
I will do some more testing and cleanups. Then we can release a new Docutils version.
Thank you for report and testing.

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Thomas Klausner — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:17:00 -0000

I applied all changes since the 0.22 release to my copy (except the version bump in init.py) There are no CRITICAL errors, the section of the build looks like this:

[6203/6204] Generating docs/QEMU manual with a custom command
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
[6204/6204] Generating docs/QEMU man pages with a custom command
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Günter Milde — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:38:21 -0000

Could you re-try with a checkout or snapshot of [r10204] that introduces independent section title style hierarchies for nested parsing?

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Peter Maydell — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:24:56 -0000

Those "possible precedence problem" warnings are from the kernel-doc perl script -- I guess that you're using a new version of Perl which emits the warnings. They shouldn't be relevant to this docutils issue, I think.

(We're going to upgrade our kernel-doc script to the kernel's current one, which is a complete rewrite in Python; that will fix these warnings as a side effect.)

#508 qemu build problem after docutils update to 0.22

Thomas Klausner — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:09:53 -0000

The precedence errors are there with docutils 0.21 as well:

Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.
Possible precedence problem between ! and pattern match (m//) at /scratch/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-10.0.3/docs/../scripts/kernel-doc line 1597.