It seems that _SPHINXDIRS is empty. I'm getting (short extract): make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2 valid values for SPHINXDIRS are: make SPHINX_CONF={conf-file} [target] use *additional* sphinx-build configuration. This is e.g. useful to build with nit-picking config. Default location for the generated documents is Documentation/output -- ~Randy