On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 17:36 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: > Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [...] > > >> I recommend re-installing the docbook-dtds package alone and in > >> isolation from other Yum/RPM transactions. If the xmlcatalog file is > >> correctly regenerated AND the docbook files are there AND you have > >> (re)run ./configure prior to running make AND you don't have filesystem > > > > Don't do that unless you're using configure for git usually. I don't > > think Francis is, he's setting make variables. > > > > I won't, I just call make with some variables set. > > >> errors THEN you should have a successful build. (Barring something that > >> crawls up out of the rabbit hole--other than a rabbit.) > >> > >> Fix the most obvious possible problems first before seeking > >> off-the-beaten-path solutions or worse blaming somebody. > >> > > > > ??? > > > > catalog sent to Francis off-list, which closes this topic for me. > > Not really I'm afraid... > > xmlto -m manpage-normal.xsl --skip-validation man git-diff-index.xml > I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd > /home/fmoreau/git/Documentation/git-diff-index.xml:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; > D DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; > > This is with your catalog. I really hope you don't have any filesystem errors. May be worth checking before attempting to reinstall the docbook-dtds package. In any case, you are apparently missing the docbook XML 4.5 DTD/XSL files (from your local cache). It automagically fails over to trying to fetch them over the internet (which I've noted doesn't work very well). -- -Drew Northup N1XIM AKA RvnPhnx on OPN ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html