The rpm build worked because it runs configure with --disable-docs. If you don't use the rpms, just ./configure --disable-docs. Why the docs don't build, I leave for my betters. sean >From: "Philippe A" <z77y16@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: issues when building fontconfig 2.1.94 >Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 18:32:27 +0000 > >I've come into two little issues when trying to build fontconfig 2.1.94 >downloaded from http://www.fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.1.94.tar.gz. > >The first issue occured towards the end of the build process. I was >building from an NFS mount point. > >(cd .libs && rm -f libfontconfig.so.1 && ln libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 >libfontconfig.so.1) >ln: creating hard link `libfontconfig.so.1' to `libfontconfig.so.1.0.4': >Operation not permitted > >So I moved the source to /tmp and restarted make. This time I got lots of >errors like: > >nsgmls:/tmp/fontconfig-2.1.94/doc/fccharset.sgml:758:10:E: document type >does not allow element "REFSECT1" here > >And then the make stopped shortly after I received: > >Working on: /tmp/fontconfig-2.1.94/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml >No way to convert HTML to text found. > >Finally I spotted the .spec. I did a rpmbuild -bb and the compile went >smoothly. I even got the documentation: > >[phil@phil fontconfig-2.1.94]$ rpm -qd fontconfig >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/AUTHORS >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/COPYING >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/ChangeLog >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/README >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/fontconfig-devel.txt >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/fontconfig-user.html >/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.1.94/fontconfig-user.txt >/usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! >http://fr.ca.search.msn.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Fontconfig mailing list >Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://mail.fontconfig.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail