From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 323951C68F; Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758463417; cv=none; b=LiM6v5V/+LJbr3tICdHoiabNykygIfRWu9xJrGYvfbMuGm1owzybUglcd8OO3xYXps4nBNzqyHaWd8TjFi3LXHn9YG2lhctAHsqJbqesJLP1MCvfeZLIvANRnH8WnuLfv1wAODu1r6RdLeCfTR0wM3hKP06WpMJEpX0pZz9lJnw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758463417; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/ryM44dSDWZAbOYmTiCvJFqpYdHDseT8yHVKoA9VGgg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=MqEJ4ghWgLXOvgFIY2wJyhOns3ZfFvxzNG5UrcG+MgcjhRXyZK6UEXgYRQ6NZ2X0qxnPEpTD2YlUAlWMehG58CP4AWtoGmVDbBXeahY7NVrvClPuvEcRUb0yuL7Nj45+mBm3zWriWjyA+BODNt1lnUFguKySDKnQbfWFo99t6mI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=lanomZds; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="lanomZds" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net B4AFA406FA DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1758463406; bh=tFnIFRKzhn1Gdeyl0+OHlzn0K6d55yD5DNCw+J5LtJo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=lanomZdsqjVjj3UN0DVcTBWCS0rkLr4HHV1o7lAO7UrjavQ8hOMKrWVha0Xp19Imk AkjIuXz/yTi0g85gr7T9Uz0gD0scgZCnW3jesc3RVMZsQ8dS1lsp8gL4Mi3LvZKwlr vqWIEz37/fsXhIplja7k6iqHEh+eIUYOTETsKPqzKxv8X2WMg/+nRneYI0MAGT7Tmi y0V07CMLk6KuvOmcqpEn2SiCSRrcP05Zup1y8jar8XhPHjINj4+v1LZxaDElQaCuty zNtotvNlm/NsRCj3sXEqNP3weUCCl34tzplC9GgYIIvivszmv6XDPv/6gx6MI1Oiog loDgtCXxJtz+A== Received: from localhost (mdns.lwn.net [45.79.72.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4AFA406FA; Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:03:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Randy Dunlap , Mark Brown , Linux Next Mailing List Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (make htmldocs problem) In-Reply-To: <883df949-0281-4a39-8745-bcdcce3a5594@infradead.org> References: <883df949-0281-4a39-8745-bcdcce3a5594@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:03:25 -0600 Message-ID: <87ldm7c382.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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). jon Randy Dunlap 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