Sphinx: error while building Linux html documentation

[bhardwajhp]

Subject: error while building Linux html documentation

Problem

@localhost linux]$ make htmldocs
SPHINX htmldocs --> file:///home/der/workspace/c-cpp/linux/linux/Documentation/output
DOT Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pipeline.dot
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/audio.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/ca.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/dmx.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/frontend.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/net.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/video.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/media.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/cec.h
PARSE include/uapi/linux/lirc.h
Running Sphinx v1.1.3

Exception occurred:
File "/home/der/workspace/c-cpp/linux/linux/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py", line 6, in
from sphinx.util.pycompat import execfile_
ImportError: cannot import name execfile_
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make[1]: * [htmldocs] Error 1
make: * [htmldocs] Error 2

Procedure to reproduce the problem

make htmldocs

Error logs / results

# Sphinx version: 1.1.3
# Python version: 2.7.5
# Docutils version: 0.11 repository
# Jinja2 version: 2.7.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/cmdline.py", line 188, in main
    warningiserror, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 102, in __init__
    confoverrides or {}, self.tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 216, in __init__
    exec code in config
  File "/home/jitender/workspace/c-cpp/linux/linux/Documentation/conf.py", line 27, in <module>
    from load_config import loadConfig
  File "/home/jitender/workspace/c-cpp/linux/linux/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py", line 6, in <module>
    from sphinx.util.pycompat import execfile_
ImportError: cannot import name execfile_

Expected results

Generate linux documentation

Reproducible project / your project

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Environment info

• OS: Linux/CentOS
• Sphinx version: 1.1.3
• Python version: 2.7.5
• Docutils version: 0.11 repository
• Jinja2 version: 2.7.2

[tk0miya]

sphinx.util.pycompat.execfile_ was introduced at 1.2 (ref: 05718e4a1).
Please upgrade your Sphinx to new one.

Note: Now we are supporting Sphinx-1.5.x series only. So I recommend you to upgrade to latest one.