I have been trying to build the docs for some time but always end up getting this error:
Makefile:30: recipe for target 'html' failed
make: *** [html] Error 2
I tried restarting with a fresh virtual environment and installing all the required packages but the result was the same. I run Ubuntu 18.04 and a full traceback of the issue is attached below. Thanks for any help with this.
Traceback: https://pastebin.com/J6e5EE3Y
Can you provide the version of Matplotlib you’re on?
import matplotlib
print (matplotlib.__version__)
I also identified multiple points in the contribution/doc-building documentation which could be improved to reduce confusion for new comers. Could be trivial for people consistently interacting with the codebase but I had to google each step individually to make sense of the docs.
This is potentially something that I can see myself contributing to after I solve this particular issue.
Ok, so we definitely need to make it clearer that you need to follow the dev version of the build docs:
https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/contributing.html#retrieving-and-installing-the-latest-version-of-the-code
Hi,
I was finally able to solve this after starting a fresh environment and installing correct texlive and graphviz packages.
Also had to invoke make SPHINXOPTS= html to get rid of errors which was failing the build.
Thanks a lot for your help 