Re: problem with xsltproc when compiling

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle debian org>]

Quoting Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameerds gmail com>:
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sameerds/trunk/doc/fr'
> xsltproc --novalid
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
> dia.dbk >dia.1
> error : Unknown IO error
>
> I am guessing that the "Unknown IO error" is the fact that I am
> sitting behind a firewall with an authenticating HTTP proxy. Or maybe
> the http URL is simply an identifier that xsltproc is supposed to use
> when looking up relevant catalog, and I might be missing that catalog
> or the relevant entry.
>
> How do I fix this?

The call to xsltproc should definitively have "--nonet" in it. Your
build system must have the DocBook XSL stylesheets installed, however.
The http://... should only be used as a "key" to the build systems
XML catalog. On a Debian system (same for Ubuntu and friends), you
have to "apt-get install docbook-xsl".