autoapi directory remains after using -c to specify conf.py outside directory of index.rst #293
Description
Hi team! Thanks for all the hard work you do on sphinx-autoapi.
I've outlined the bug in the repo here with working and not-working branches illustrating minimally viable examples.
README copy/pasted here:
This is a bug report for a strange bug with sphinx-autoapi.
When I run sphinx-build with a -c option to specify the conf.py location where the conf.py file is in a different location than the docs index, I get the following extension error:
dumping object inventory... done
build succeeded, 1 warning.
The HTML pages are in gen.
Extension error (autoapi.extension):
Handler <function build_finished at 0x10a2eae50> for event 'build-finished' threw an exception (exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/leo/projects/test-autoapi/autoapi')
A new directory remains after running sphinx-build full of autoapi files that I believe should be removed.
Steps to Reproduce:
Python 3.8.2, MAC OS Big Sur, installed requirements.txt.
Happy path (working) branch of this directory:
.
├── code
│ └── test.py
├── docs
│ ├── conf.py
│ └── index.rst
├── gen
└── requirements.txt
Run:
# cd to root of this repo on `working` branch
rm -rf ./gen/*
sphinx-build -b html ./docs -c ./docs ./gen
python -m http.server --directory ./gen 8000
Visit http://localhost:8000, see contents.
"Bug" path (not-working branch of this directory:
.
├── code
│ └── test.py
├── conf.py
├── docs
│ └── index.rst
├── gen
└── requirements.txt
Run:
# cd to root of this repo on `not-working` branch
rm -rf ./gen/*
sphinx-build -b html ./docs -c . ./gen
python -m http.server --directory ./gen 8000
See error as described. Visit http://localhost:8000, see contents - looks ok.
But run:
ls docs
and see how autoapi directory remains. I suspect this is related to the error.