Don't require Makefile?

[mgeier]

I've just tried sphinx-action and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/entrypoint.py", line 22, in <module>
    action.build_all_docs(github_env, sys.argv[1:])
  File "/sphinx_action/action.py", line 124, in build_all_docs
    return_code, annotations = build_docs(docs_dir)
  File "/sphinx_action/action.py", line 99, in build_docs
    with open(log_file, 'r') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/sphinx-log'
##[error]Docker run failed with exit code 1

It took me a while, but I found out that the real error is a few lines further up:

make: *** No rule to make target 'html'.  Stop.

I'm not using a Makefile in my project (because I don't like it, see e.g. sphinx-doc/sphinx#5618).

It would be great to support workflows without Makefile.

For example, https://readthedocs.org/ doesn't require having a Makefile; they somehow automagically find a conf.py and start Sphinx from there, without needing a Makefile.

[ammaraskar]

Sorry for the late reply, this should now be possible with a customizable build-command, see for example:

https://github.com/ammaraskar/sphinx-action-test/blob/dfbc77eb2ad027cdc3a1e5522b2c73729377724c/.github/workflows/default.yml#L25

You can now directly invoke sphinx-build or your own custom command.

[mgeier]

Thanks a lot!

I'm having troubles specifying the repo root directory as build directory (with build-command: python3 setup.py build_sphinx).

When I use ...

docs-folder: ""

... I get this error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''

And when I use ...

docs-folder: .

... I get this error:

error: option --no-color not recognized

How can I specify the repo root?