# Running documenter locally no longer seems to populate the build directory

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-documenter-locally-no-longer-seems-to-populate-the-build-directory/64711
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [July 15, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-documenter-locally-no-longer-seems-to-populate-the-build-directory/64711 "2021-07-15T19:25:07Z")
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### Author: ![dmbates](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dmbates/32/44_2.png) [@dmbates](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dmbates)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-documenter-locally-no-longer-seems-to-populate-the-build-directory/64711/1 "2021-07-15T19:25:07Z")

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I just tried to build a local version of the docs for a package using a method that I believe has succeeded in the past. I start julia (v1.6.2) in the `docs` subdirectory, `Pkd.add` the parent directory, `Pkg.update()` then `include("make.jl")`. It seems to go through all the steps but the `build` directory remains empty. Any hints on what I might be doing wrong?

```julia
    Updating git-repo `/home/bates/.julia/dev/MixedModels`
   Installed OffsetArrays ─ v1.10.3
   Installed Documenter ─── v0.27.3
    Updating `~/.julia/dev/MixedModels/docs/Project.toml`
  [6e4b80f9] ↑ BenchmarkTools v0.5.0 ⇒ v1.1.0
  [a93c6f00] ↑ DataFrames v0.22.7 ⇒ v1.2.0
  [e30172f5] ↑ Documenter v0.26.3 ⇒ v0.27.3
  [ff71e718] ~ MixedModels v4.0.0 `..#pa/release-4.0` ⇒ v4.0.0 `..#pa/release-4.0`
    Updating `~/.julia/dev/MixedModels/docs/Manifest.toml`
  [6e4b80f9] ↑ BenchmarkTools v0.5.0 ⇒ v1.1.0
  [324d7699] ↑ CategoricalArrays v0.9.7 ⇒ v0.10.0
  [a93c6f00] ↑ DataFrames v0.22.7 ⇒ v1.2.0
  [e30172f5] ↑ Documenter v0.26.3 ⇒ v0.27.3
  [b5f81e59] ↑ IOCapture v0.1.1 ⇒ v0.2.2
  [e1d29d7a] ↑ Missings v0.4.5 ⇒ v1.0.0
  [ff71e718] ~ MixedModels v4.0.0 `..#pa/release-4.0` ⇒ v4.0.0 `..#pa/release-4.0`
  [6fe1bfb0] ↑ OffsetArrays v1.10.2 ⇒ v1.10.3
  [08abe8d2] ↑ PrettyTables v0.11.1 ⇒ v1.1.0
  [a2af1166] ↑ SortingAlgorithms v0.3.1 ⇒ v1.0.1
Precompiling project...
  7 dependencies successfully precompiled in 15 seconds (106 already precompiled)

julia> include("make.jl")
[Info: Precompiling MixedModels [ff71e718-51f3-5ec2-a782-8ffcbfa3c316]
[ Info: SetupBuildDirectory: setting up build directory.
[ Info: Doctest: running doctests.
[ Info: ExpandTemplates: expanding markdown templates.
┌ Warning: Model has not been fit
└ @ MixedModels ~/.julia/packages/MixedModels/SlgCc/src/generalizedlinearmixedmodel.jl:669
[ Info: CrossReferences: building cross-references.
[ Info: CheckDocument: running document checks.
[ Info: Populate: populating indices.
[ Info: RenderDocument: rendering document.
[ Info: HTMLWriter: rendering HTML pages.
┌ Warning: Documenter could not auto-detect the building environment Skipping deployment.
└ @ Documenter ~/.julia/packages/Documenter/4JDQo/src/deployconfig.jl:75

```