RE: I cannot compile fontconfig

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Vivek,

Looks like docbook2man is having difficulties.

The error message

        cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//OASIS//DTD
        DocBook V4.1//EN"

indicates that your SGML parser could not find the relevant DTD, or some
module of the DTD. See

        http://www.faqs.org/docs/docbook/html/ch03.html



What to do????

I compared what docbook packages I have installed on an FC-4 clone with
what you have installed. I also compared the output of the docbook2man
command.  See below.

My best guess is you are missing a DTD package.

-Joseph

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yours:
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packages installed:
    docbook-dtd412-xml-1.0-16
    docbook-dtd42-xml-1.0-4
    docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-1
    docbook-style-xsl-1.68.1-1
    docbook-utils-0.6.14-3
    docbook-utils-pdf-0.6.14-3


Errant command:
----------------
docbook2man ../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml

Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working  on: /build/home/rpmbuild/garnome-2.12.3/freedesktop/fontconfig/work/main.d/fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml



mine:
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packages installed:
    docbook-dtds-1.0-26
    docbook-simple-1.0-2
    docbook-slides-3.3.1-2
    docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-1
    docbook-style-xsl-1.68.1-1
    docbook-utils-0.6.14-4
    docbook-utils-pdf-0.6.14-4



Errant command:
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docbook2man ../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml

Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-4.1-1.0-26.cat
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on: /opt/garnome/src/sandbox/freedesktop/fontconfig/work/main.d/fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml
<joss debian org>
JosselinMouette2003Josselin MouetteSep 16, 2003Done.


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On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 15:06 +0100, Rai, Vivek BGI UK wrote:
> Hi Joseph, 
> 
> Many thanks for your reply.  
> 
> > The issue is usually a missing external dependency that can 
> > often be resolved by installing a development package for 
> > your particular distribution.
> 
> Is this some old version of docbook utils? Here are the various docbook
> packages that I have got:
> docbook-utils-0.6.14-3
> docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-1
> docbook-style-xsl-1.68.1-1
> docbook-utils-pdf-0.6.14-3
> docbook-dtd412-xml-1.0-16
> docbook-dtd42-xml-1.0-4
> 
> > GARNOME 2.12.x is considered "obsolete" at this point in time. 
> > 
> >         http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
> > 
> > Version 2.14.1 will be released next week. It may be prudent 
> > to wait a week and try the newest release.
> 
> Yes, I did try and download the garnome-2.14.0 as well. 
> 
> The problem is, my distribution, (PCLinuxOS, which is otherwise great)
> is very KDE centric. They keep in line with KDE/OpenOffice releases, but
> don't bother much about gnome (still on 2.10!!). They upgraded some of
> the core gnome/gtk libs to 2.12, so I just feel it would be less of an
> interference with any of their gtk based packages.
> 
> > * distro/platform description
> PCLinuxOS (a derivitive of Mandriva)/with kernel 2.6.15 on i686 AMD. 
> 
> PCLOS was derived from mandrake 9.2, it uses a debian style apt-get
> based repository, instad of mandrake urpmi etc. Normally, older (esp pre
> 9.2) mandriva packages are compatible with it. Some newer packages may
> not be. (I usually just build from source myself)
> 
> > * output from make
> I have attached the output of make paranoid-install 
> 
> Thanks and Regards, 
> Vivek
> 
> 
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