New submission from Gregory P. Smith: I never do in-tree builds anymore because they make me feel dirty and leave build artifacts cluttering up my source tree. make clinic does not work for out of tree builds. To reproduce: ~$ git clone ...cpython repo... ~$ mkdir build && cd build ~/build$ ../cpython/configure --with-pydebug ~/build$ make clinic ./python -E ./Tools/clinic/clinic.py --make ./python: can't open file './Tools/clinic/clinic.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory Makefile:545: recipe for target 'clinic' failed make: *** [clinic] Error 2 Per https://docs.python.org/3/howto/clinic.html it looks like I can just manually run clinic.py on the files I have modified. Ideally the build system would take care of that for me. But all I really want is a single command that keeps me up to date. python3 Tools/clinic/clinic.py appears to be that command. Even if it isn't fixed for out of tree builds, use of clinic needs to be in the devguide. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Argument Clinic, Documentation messages: 294604 nosy: docs@python, gregory.p.smith, larry priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: 'make clinic' does not work for out of tree builds / clinic.py is not in the devguide type: compile error versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue30492 _______________________________________