rtfd/readthedocs.org — Issue #123: Odd Failed Build (maybe)
Author: marklap
Created: 2011-10-11 14:53:36+00:00
State: open

I'm having trouble building docs for the following project:

https://bitbucket.org/marklap/pyhai
http://readthedocs.org/projects/pyhai/

RTD is complaining with the following error:

```
Configuration error:
There is a syntax error in your configuration file: invalid syntax (conf.py, line 13)
```

The only thing I've changed is my bitbucket username (from: laperrim, to: marklap). It may be just a coincidence, but I think the RTD builds started failing after that.

The steps I've taken:
1. replaced conf.py with an unmodified conf.py generated by sphinx-quickstart
2. replaced index.rst with unmodified index.rst generated by sphinx-quickstart
3. converted the conf.py Windows EOL '\r\n' to Unix '\n'
4. stripped all comments and blank lines from conf.py
5. deleted the pyHai RTD project and recreated it

RTD always complains with the same error (about line 13) which is odd given # 3 above. So, I'm a bit confused. I've read and (hopefully correctly) followed the [getting started] (http://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html) doc.

When I first created the project in RTD with the same conf.py file generated by sphinx-quickstart, RTD built just fine.

Any suggestions?