Commit e9dfeed2 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet
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docs: sphinx-pre-install: don't barf on beta Sphinx releases 



sphinx-pre-install is picky when it comes to parsing sphinx versions; it
failed when run with sphinx 4.0.0b1.  Tweak the regex to tolerate a
trailing "bN" on the version number.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent f9bbc12c

scripts/sphinx-pre-install

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@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ sub get_sphinx_version($) 


	open IN, "$cmd --version 2>&1 |";

	while (<IN>) {

		if (m/^\s*sphinx-build\s+([\d\.]+)(\+\/[\da-f]+)?$/) {

		if (m/^\s*sphinx-build\s+([\d\.]+)((\+\/[\da-f]+)|(b\d+))?$/) {

			$ver=$1;

			last;

		}