error while running make

[starius]

$ make
COLUMNS=80 python -m youtube_dl --help | python devscripts/make_readme.py
/usr/bin/python: youtube_dl is a package and cannot be directly executed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "devscripts/make_readme.py", line 13, in
options = helptext[helptext.index(' General Options:')+19:]
ValueError: substring not found
make: *** [README.md] Error 1

version d3f5f9f

[phihag]

Cannot reproduce, but I'll investigate it. Thanks for reporting!

[smblott-github]

Me too. Did anyone figure this out?

Thanks.

[starius]

Can't reproduce it now

[smblott-github]

Thanks @starius.

It seems to be a python 2.6 issue. There are a couple of changes from 2.6 to 2.7 that break the build code for the documentation.

I've a fix here. It seems to work only for 2.6 and 2.7. However, not for 3.2. Hence, I'm not going to push it as a pull request.