Building with doc use flag fails with * python3_4: running distutils-r1_run_phase python_compile_all make -j1 -C doc 'SPHINXBUILD="${PYTHON}" "${S}/sphinx-build.py"' html make: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2/work/Sphinx-1.2.2/doc' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2/work/Sphinx-1.2.2/sphinx-build.py", line 16, in <module> sys.exit(make_main(sys.argv)) File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2/work/Sphinx-1.2.2/sphinx/__init__.py", line 85, in make_main from sphinx import make_mode File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2/work/Sphinx-1.2.2/sphinx/make_mode.py", line 72 print "Error: %r is not a directory!" % self.builddir ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' Makefile:18: recipe for target 'html' failed make: *** [html] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2/work/Sphinx-1.2.2/doc' after a research I found that the upstream code https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx /blob/b4620a38887b1195b26e7b2fa5552bbfd2b9f6b7/sphinx/make_mode.py#L72 at release 1.2.3 and 1.2.2 (I tested only this) can't build doc because the code is not fully migrated to python 3 from python 2 Proposal: patch the missing parenthesis or drop doc use flag
This should be a text book application of https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/distutils-r1#DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL
*** Bug 589178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As of today, sphinx builds its doc just fine under both py2 and py3.
