Re: [Gtk-osx-users] gtk-doc and XML files

[Dwayne Bailey <dwayne translate org za>]

On 2011-05-26 21:14, John Ralls wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 3:08 AM, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get this configure error when building gtk-doc.
>>
>> checking for XML catalog (/Users/dev/gtk/inst/etc/xml/catalog)... found
>> checking for xmlcatalog... /Users/dev/gtk/inst/bin/xmlcatalog
>> checking for DocBook XML DTD V4.3 in XML catalog... found
>> checking for DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog... not found
>> configure: error: could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog
>> *** Error during phase configure of gtk-doc: ########## Error running
>> ./configure --prefix /Users/dev/gtk/inst --libdir
>> '/Users/dev/gtk/inst/lib' --disable-scrollkeeper
>> --with-xml-catalog=$JHBUILD_PREFIX/etc/xml/catalog --disable-static  ***
>> [3/3]
>>
>>
>> This one is new for me. I've had a lot of stuff that I haven't been
>> building from scratch, but I tried a clean build and got the error.
>>
>> My suspicion is that the gtk-osx-docbook-1.0.tar.gz needs a refresh but
>> I'm not sure where the files in that bundle come from.  Seems like the
>> only changes to gtk-doc where in Feb this year, seem odd that no one
>> else has bumped into this one.
>> https://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build/commit/ece19d0219fdeaad10eb856dbbc026f4ea2a53f5
>>
> That is odd indeed. There's no reason to change gtk-osx-docbook: That stuff hasn't changed in many years. What's more likely is that your installation of it broke somehow.
> The file that xmlcatalog should return is $PREFIX/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/html/chunk.xsl; the catalog file that it needs to find it is $PREFIX/etc/xml/docbook-xsl.xsl.
>
> I'm at an absolute loss to explain what might have gone wrong with your installation of gtk-osx-docbook, since it's obviously partly there (xmlcatalog found docbook-xml.xml, the other catalog configure was looking for).
It solved itself.  I wish I could tell you how!

I eventually did another botstrap rebuild with --force then gtk-osx just 
started working :(

-- 
regards
Dwayne