linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)

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Message-ID: <e2112be7-ba68-43d1-92ba-98adfb869a95@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:59:16 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
 Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem)



On 9/21/25 7:03 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Mauro, have you seen this ... any ideas ... ?  Randy, what can you say
> about the environment you're running when you hit this problem?
> 
> (It doesn't reproduce here).
> 

openSUSE/tumbleweed current.

Python version: 3.13.7
Docutils version: 0.21.2
Using alabaster theme
Using Python kernel-doc
sphinx-build 8.2.3

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 11 01:42 /usr/bin/sphinx-build -> alts*

$ file  /usr/bin/alts
/usr/bin/alts: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.3.0, BuildID[sha1]=17681640c9985eb36ae6d9eca0f08159509386c4, stripped


> 
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9/19/25 8:05 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>> With today's linux-next, when I do 'make O=DOC1 htmldocs', I get:
>>
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/repo/linux-next/DOC1'
>> ../Documentation/Makefile:71: warning: overriding recipe for target 'pdfdocs'
>> ../Documentation/Makefile:62: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'pdfdocs'
>>   File "/usr/bin/sphinx-build", line 1
>>     ELF
>> SyntaxError: source code cannot contain null bytes
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/repo/linux-next/DOC1'
>>
>> where the "ELF" line contains some binary bytes that are not shown
>> via copy/paste. Here they are in hex in case that might help:
>>
>> 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 0a              .ELF....
>>
>>
>> I don't see what is causing this, so I am using the previous day's
>> linux-next for Documentation testing etc...
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> -- 
>> ~Randy

-- 
~Randy