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+# ==================================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Nokia
+# Copyright (c) 2018-2019 AT&T Intellectual Property.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ==================================================================================
+FROM python:3.7-alpine
+
+# copy NNG and rmr out of the CI builder nng
+# NOTE: rmr-pythons documentation does not change based on what version of rmr is installed, only based on what version rmr-python was built (coding wise) against last, so it doesn't matter if the rmr in the parent repo here is ahead
+COPY --from=nexus3.o-ran-sc.org:10004/bldr-alpine3:3-a3.9 /usr/local/lib64/libnng.so /usr/local/lib64/libnng.so
+COPY --from=nexus3.o-ran-sc.org:10004/bldr-alpine3:3-a3.9 /usr/local/lib64/librmr_nng.so /usr/local/lib64/librmr_nng.so
+
+COPY rmr/ /tmp/rmr
+COPY docs/ /tmp/docs
+WORKDIR /tmp
+
+# need make for sphinx
+RUN apk add --update make
+
+RUN pip install sphinx numpydoc
+
+WORKDIR /tmp/docs/
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/:/usr/local/lib64
+# text generates the documentation in text format
+CMD make text