Instead of hardcoding the version number here, we read it from the pr…

…oject's configure script

doc/conf.py

@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@
 # import sys
 # sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
 
+import subprocess
+
+#
+# Instead of hardcoding the version number here, we read it from the
+# project's configure script
+#
+vers_cmd = "grep AC_INIT ../configure.ac | awk '{ print substr($2, 2, length($2) - 3);}'"
+version = subprocess.check_output(vers_cmd, shell=True).decode("utf-8") 
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -58,9 +66,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = 'develop'
+#version = 'develop'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = 'develop'
+release = version
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
@@ -100,7 +108,7 @@
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = ['../../doc/_static']
+html_static_path = ['_static']
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, must be a dictionary that maps document names
 # to template names.