make doc_html fails because 'no such file / directory'

[ericwomer]

After downloading the prepared archive and unzipping it in the root of cppreference-doc then running make doc_html I get this error

make doc_html
mkdir -p output
./preprocess.py --src reference --dst output/reference
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 825, in move
    os.rename(src, real_dst)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'output/reference/upload.cppreference.com/mwiki' -> 'output/reference/common'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eric/src/Manuals/cppreference-doc/./preprocess.py", line 84, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/eric/src/Manuals/cppreference-doc/./preprocess.py", line 46, in main
    preprocess.rearrange_archive(root)
  File "/home/eric/src/Manuals/cppreference-doc/commands/preprocess.py", line 59, in rearrange_archive
    shutil.move(os.path.join(root, 'upload.cppreference.com/mwiki'), data_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 845, in move
    copy_function(src, real_dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 436, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 256, in copyfile
    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'output/reference/upload.cppreference.com/mwiki'

and if I run make doc_html again it says nothing to be done for doc_html.

[sona-tau]

make doc_html worked for me after running make source. It seems to not be the "preferred~" way of doing this but at least it works.

[PeterFeicht]

That is clearly explained in the README.

If you want a more recent version of the archive than what is available, you'll have to use make source; if you want to play around with the archive creation using existing data, then you can download the latest cppreference-doc-* file from the release page.

[ericwomer]

Thank you, you can close this issue now.