Hi Jani, On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > This should help > > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx > index 92deea30b183..a4cba2d1aaf1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx > +++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ loop_cmd = $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1)) > > quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX $@ --> file://$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/$3/$4); > cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/media all;\ > + PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \ > BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) SPHINX_CONF=$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5/$(SPHINX_CONF)) \ > $(SPHINXBUILD) \ > -b $2 \ Thanks, that works (on next-20160907, doesn't apply to v4.8-rc5). But IMHO it's a bit drastic. There's no way to let python create them in the build directory instead? 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