documentation-build

To validate a Sphinx documentation build, you need to identify the documentation directories and execute make targets like 'html' and 'linkcheck'. This process checks for configuration issues, capturing errors and warnings to ensure build integrity.

Your Read the Docs documentation build might fail due to configuration issues, broken links, or formatting errors. Running a build validation helps diagnose these failures by running targets like 'html' and 'linkcheck' to capture exact errors and warnings.

Yes, you can check for broken links in your Sphinx documentation build by running the 'linkcheck' make target. This validation process identifies and categorizes broken links, build failures, and formatting issues before deployment.

The best way to ensure documentation integrity before a merge is to run a validation check on your Sphinx or Read the Docs project. This verifies successful builds, catches configuration issues, and reports errors and warnings early.

Yes, you need to specify or identify the correct documentation directories to run a build validation. The process relies on locating these directories to execute the necessary make targets like 'html' and 'linkcheck' for diagnosing failures.