<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">All --<br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br> As Chris said, I should have figured it out for myself from this particular error message in my SlackBuild.log:  "The 'packaging' distribution ..." <br><br>However, I am not much of a Python Guy, so thanks for the hint Chris ! :) <br><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">Anyhow ... I built and installed pyparsing ( REQUIRED for packaging ) and then packaging and then Sphinx-1.7.0 built and installed without error.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">Playing with it now but it looks good !<br><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">Thanks to Dimitris, Didier and Chris and especially to Ben for the Sphinx.SlackBuild !<br><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace" class="gmail_default">-- kjh<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Christoph Willing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.willing@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">chris.willing@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 24/02/18 21:24, Konrad J Hambrick wrote:<br>
> Benjamin --<br>
><br>
> I am running Slackware64 14.2 + Multilib and this morning when I attempted<br>
> to build Sphinx Version 1.7.0 I experienced a python install failure:<br>
><br>
>    Installing sphinx-autogen script to /tmp/SBo/package-Sphinx/usr/<wbr>bin<br>
>    make: Entering directory '/tmp/SBo/Sphinx-1.7.0/doc'<br>
>    Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
>      File "/tmp/SBo/package-Sphinx/usr/<wbr>bin/sphinx-build", line 5, in<br>
> <module><br>
>        from pkg_resources import load_entry_point<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 2927, in <module><br>
>        @_call_aside<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 2913, in _call_aside<br>
>        f(*args, **kwargs)<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 2940, in _initialize_master_working_set<br>
>        working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 635, in _build_master<br>
>        ws.require(__requires__)<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 943, in require<br>
>        needed = self.resolve(parse_<wbr>requirements(requirements))<br>
>      File<br>
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/pkg_resources/__init_<wbr>_.py", line<br>
> 829, in resolve<br>
>        raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)<br>
>    pkg_resources.<wbr>DistributionNotFound: The 'packaging' distribution was<br>
> not found and is required by Sphinx<br>
>    Makefile:20: recipe for target 'html' failed<br>
>    make: *** [html] Error 1<br>
>    make: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/Sphinx-1.7.0/doc'<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>I also had the same problem building the new Sphinx. The problem was<br>
fixed by preinstalling python/packaging, as suggested by the error<br>
message. It should be added to the REQUIRES line.<br>
<br>
chris<br>
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