user-guide: Allow build with sphinx < 1.8

Apparently the override argument to add_directive_to_domain was added in sphinx
1.8.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/flags.py b/docs/users_guide/flags.py
index 0e56bdfcc3..c95b9aa96c 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/flags.py
+++ b/docs/users_guide/flags.py
@@ -46,9 +46,11 @@
 
 from docutils import nodes
 from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives
+import sphinx
 from sphinx import addnodes
 from sphinx.domains.std import GenericObject
 from sphinx.errors import SphinxError
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from utils import build_table_from_list
 
 ### Settings
@@ -599,15 +601,18 @@ def purge_flags(app, env, docname):
 ### Initialization
 
 def setup(app):
+    # The override argument to add_directive_to_domain is only supported by >= 1.8
+    sphinx_version = LooseVersion(sphinx.__version__)
+    override_arg = {'override': True} if sphinx_version >= LooseVersion('1.8') else {}
 
     # Add ghc-flag directive, and override the class with our own
     app.add_object_type('ghc-flag', 'ghc-flag')
-    app.add_directive_to_domain('std', 'ghc-flag', Flag, override=True)
+    app.add_directive_to_domain('std', 'ghc-flag', Flag, **override_arg)
 
     # Add extension directive, and override the class with our own
     app.add_object_type('extension', 'extension')
     app.add_directive_to_domain('std', 'extension', LanguageExtension,
-            override=True)
+                                **override_arg)
     # NB: language-extension would be misinterpreted by sphinx, and produce
     # lang="extensions" XML attributes