When running "make htmldocs O=/path/to/somewhere", *.pyc files end up in the source tree instead of in the build tree: $ git ls-files -o Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.pyc Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.pyc Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.pyc $ This is with v4.8-rc5. With next-20160907, two more files appear: Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.pyc Documentation/sphinx/load_config.pyc Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html