[ARROW-4436] [Documentation] Clarify instructions for building documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20995
• Assignee: Micah Kornfield
• Reporter: Micah Kornfield
• Created: 31/Jan/19 06:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:33
• Resolved: 04/Feb/19 15:30

Description

https://arrow.apache.org/docs/building.html#building-docs seems to assume some prior setup.  It is not entirely clear what that setup is.  At the very least we should update it to bridge the gap from instructions for building from source https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/development.html#building-the-documentation

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3539