Faker is needed to build documentation

[jorti]

Hello, I'm trying to package faker into a RPM but I cannot build the docs because faker needs to be already installed.

Is there any way to build the docs without the module faker installed?

Thank you.

+ /usr/bin/make -j8 html
~/build/BUILD/faker-0.5.3/docs ~/build/BUILD/faker-0.5.3
sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html
Making output directory...
Running Sphinx v1.2.3

Extension error:
Could not import extension faker.build_docs (exception: No module named faker.build_docs)
Makefile:53: recipe for target 'html' failed
make: *** [html] Error 1

[fcurella]

Even if we'd move the code that's in faker.build_docs to somewhere in the sphinx build, we'd still need access to the faker module because we need to introspect faker in order to generate examples of the providers.

It might work to temporarily include the directory containing faker in the PYTHONPATH, something like:

PYTHONPATH=~/build/BUILD/faker-0.5.3 /usr/bin/make -j8 html

[jorti]

Thanks for the explanation

[jorti]

It has worked. This is what I use:

pushd docs
PYTHONPATH='..' /usr/bin/make -j8 html
popd

Thank you!