On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 08:22:22AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > Build of htmldocs fails for out-of-tree builds: Oops, I've sent the wrong patch, sorry for the noise. > $ make V=1 O=~/build/kernel/ htmldocs > make -C /home/rppt/build/kernel -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/Makefile htmldocs > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rppt/build/kernel' > make -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic > rm -f .tmp_quiet_recordmcount > make -f /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/Makefile.build obj=Documentation htmldocs > Can't open Documentation/conf.py at /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/scripts/sphinx-pre-install line 230. > /home/rppt/git/linux-docs/Documentation/Makefile:80: recipe for target 'htmldocs' failed > make[2]: *** [htmldocs] Error 2 > > The scripts/sphinx-pre-install is trying to open files in the current > directory which is $KBUILD_OUTPUT rather than in $srctree. > > Fix it. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: use "./" as default prefix as Mauro suggested > > scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install > index 0b44d51..f710bbd 100755 > --- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install > +++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install > @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ use strict; > # Copyright (c) 2017-2019 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> > # > > -my $conf = "Documentation/conf.py"; > -my $requirement_file = "Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt"; > +my $prefix = "$ENV{'srctree'}/"; > +my $conf = $prefix . "Documentation/conf.py"; > +my $requirement_file = $prefix . "Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt"; > my $virtenv_prefix = "sphinx_"; > > # > -- > 2.7.4 > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.