Bug 410593 – dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r2 emerge fails with USE="doc" and Python 3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Mayo 2012-04-02 18:58:54 UTC]

* Generation of documentation
make -j5 'SPHINXBUILD=python3.2 ../sphinx-build.py' html 
python3.2 ../sphinx-build.py -b html -d _build/doctrees    . _build/html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../sphinx-build.py", line 15, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r2/work/Sphinx-1.1.3/sphinx/__init__.py", line 47, in main
    from sphinx import cmdline
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r2/work/Sphinx-1.1.3/sphinx/cmdline.py", line 198
    except Exception, err:
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [html] Error 1
 * ERROR: dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r2 failed (compile phase):


Looks like sphinx-build.py is using the original source and not the modified code in Sphinx-1.1.3/build-3.2/lib/sphinx.

[Comment 1 jannis 2012-04-03 07:49:16 UTC]

Same here.
But it doesn't work with python-2.7 selected by eselect during build. Chris, does it work for you then?

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2012-04-03 14:49:32 UTC]

This package is really starting to irritate me...

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2012-04-03 15:26:57 UTC]

+  03 Apr 2012; Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]> sphinx-1.1.3-r2.ebuild:
+  Fix generation of docs with python 3. Solution copied from Progress overlay.
+