scripts/sphinx-pre-install: get rid of RHEL7 explicity check

RHEL8 was already launched. This test won't get it, and will
do the wrong thing. Ok, we could fix it, but now we check
Sphinx version to ensure that it matches the minimal (1.3),
so there's no need for an explicit check there.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
index 11239eb2969518414505a922c16f3b2ab33acedd..ded3e2ef3f8d704028a0ae127bada68165f26438 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
+++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
@@ -581,19 +581,6 @@ sub check_needs()
                print "Unknown OS\n";
        }
 
-       # RHEL 7.x and clones have Sphinx version 1.1.x and incomplete texlive
-       if (($system_release =~ /Red Hat Enterprise Linux/) ||
-           ($system_release =~ /CentOS/) ||
-           ($system_release =~ /Scientific Linux/) ||
-           ($system_release =~ /Oracle Linux Server/)) {
-               $virtualenv = 1;
-               $pdf = 0;
-
-               printf("NOTE: On this distro, Sphinx and TexLive shipped versions are incompatible\n");
-               printf("with doc build. So, use Sphinx via a Python virtual environment.\n\n");
-               printf("This script can't install a TexLive version that would provide PDF.\n");
-       }
-
        # Check for needed programs/tools
        check_sphinx();
        check_perl_module("Pod::Usage", 0);