Problem re-building RTEMS docs

[Sebastian Huber]

On 03/11/2020 17:00, Andrew Butterfield wrote:

>   I am trying to edit RTEMS docs to fix an error regarding large comments (ticket #4163).
>
> I'm working out of the rtems-doc submodule of rtems-central,
> and following instructions in the Soft Eng manual (6.1 Soft Devpt (Git users)
>
> I have created a branch and edited rtems-docs/eng/coding-80cols.rts
>
> Before creating/emailing patches, I want to rebuild the eng document.
>
> However ./waf configure fails in rtems-docs
>
> :- ./waf configure
> Waf: The wscript in '/Users/butrfeld/REPOS/rtems-central/modules/rtems-docs' is unreadable
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ... stuff deleted
>    File "/Users/butrfeld/REPOS/rtems-central/modules/rtems-docs/common/conf.py", line 86, in <module>
>      import sphinx_rtd_theme_rtems
>    File "/Users/butrfeld/REPOS/rtems-central/modules/rtems-docs/common/sphinx_rtd_theme_rtems/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
>      import sphinx
> ImportError: No module named sphinx
>
> I tried messing around with python/pip versions, virtual environments,
> and using pip(3) to re-install sphinx and sphinxcontrib-bibtex.
>
> Pip can see these packages - why can't waf?

This is strange. I use the virtual environment of rtems-central to build 
the docs. Did you activate the virtual environment? What is the output of

which python

?

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