diff --git a/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMSphinxDoc.cmake b/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMSphinxDoc.cmake
index a4f0f618..62604011 100755
--- a/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMSphinxDoc.cmake
+++ b/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMSphinxDoc.cmake
@@ -66,8 +66,24 @@ function(rocm_add_sphinx_doc SRC_DIR)
         set(USE_DOXYGEN)
     endif()
 
+    set(ERROR_MSG)
+    if (NOT SPHINX_EXECUTABLE)
+        set(ERROR_MSG "Sphinx executable not found.")
+    elseif(USE_DOXYGEN AND NOT DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
+        set(ERROR_MSG "Doxygen executable not found.")
+    endif()
+
     if(NOT TARGET sphinx-${BUILDER})
-        add_custom_target(sphinx-${BUILDER})
+        if(ERROR_MSG)
+            rocm_error_target(sphinx-${BUILDER} ${ERROR_MSG})
+        else()
+            add_custom_target(sphinx-${BUILDER})
+        endif()
+        rocm_mark_as_doc(sphinx-${BUILDER})
+    endif()
+
+    if(ERROR_MSG)
+        return()
     endif()
 
     add_custom_target(
@@ -85,7 +101,6 @@ function(rocm_add_sphinx_doc SRC_DIR)
     add_dependencies(sphinx-${BUILDER} ${PROJECT_NAME}-sphinx-${BUILDER})
     rocm_clean_doc_output("${OUTPUT_DIR}/html")
     rocm_clean_doc_output("${OUTPUT_DIR}/doctrees")
-    rocm_mark_as_doc(sphinx-${BUILDER})
     if(PARSE_DEPENDS)
         add_dependencies(sphinx-${BUILDER} ${PARSE_DEPENDS})
     endif()
diff --git a/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMUtilities.cmake b/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMUtilities.cmake
index 498c1512..b6d8adff 100644
--- a/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMUtilities.cmake
+++ b/share/rocm/cmake/ROCMUtilities.cmake
@@ -117,3 +117,9 @@ function(rocm_read_os_release OUTPUT KEYVALUE)
         ${_output}
         PARENT_SCOPE)
 endfunction()
+
+function(rocm_error_target TARGET MESSAGE)
+    add_custom_target(${TARGET}
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "ERROR: ${MESSAGE}"
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E false)
+endfunction()