I just bumped into this today while testing v2 of my content-description series: $ ./configure \u2026 $ make \u2026 python ./doc/mkdocdeps.py ./doc doc/_build doc/docdeps.mk Traceback (most recent call last): File "./doc/mkdocdeps.py", line 6, in <module> execfile(srcdir + '/conf.py') NameError: name 'execfile' is not defined \u2026 The first patch in this series fixes that issue, and the rest of the series fixes some other issues I bumped into while working on that. Sorry I missed these in the initial series. Note that while mkdocdeps.py and prerst2man.py are now Python 3 compatible (with this series), the build will fail for Python's 3.0 through 3.2 because of the explicit unicode literals in conf.py [1]. It's likely that conf.py could use [2] from __future__ import unicode_literals drop the u'' prefixes, and be compatible with all Python's \u22652.6 (including all 3s). I haven't checked the logic though, and I'm not running 3.2 locally anymore, so it's not a big priority for me. Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#pep-414-explicit-unicode-literals [2]: from __future__ import unicode_literals W. Trevor King (7): doc/mkdocdeps.py: Convert execfile to import doc/mkdocdeps.py: Use "with" statement for the output file doc/prerst2man.py: Use Python-3-compatible octal notation doc/prerst2man.py: Fix 'os.system' -> 'system' typo doc: Allow rst2man.py as an alternative to rst2man doc/prerst2man.py: Convert execfile to import doc/INSTALL: Remove rst2man reference and other updates configure | 12 +++++++----- doc/INSTALL | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- doc/Makefile.local | 6 +++--- doc/mkdocdeps.py | 19 ++++++++++--------- doc/prerst2man.py | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1.353.gc66d89d