I was learning to get to $ make html to work. These are the final steps that I used on my test branch in my numpy repo: $ sphinx-build -b html doc/source builddir
build succeeded, 165 warnings.
$ make html
make: *** No rule to make target `html’. Stop.
I checked one of the resultant HTML pages, and the changes had been made as expected. But to make sense of the last message, on reading on forums (StackOverflow), I found that I got that error because I was in the directory which* did not* contain the makefile. So: $ cd doc
$ make html
sphinx-build: error: unrecognized arguments: --keep-going make: *** [html] Error 2
I can't make sense of the last two errors. I had followed the instructions from NumPy <http://www.numpy.org/devdocs/docs/howto_build_docs.html#sphinx-extensions> and Sphinx-doc <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/quickstart.html#running-the-build> . I realize that this question is not about NumPy, so I appreciate any resource you can point me to. Thank you! Sanchi https://github.com/chelwin