RE: I cannot compile fontconfig

["Rai, Vivek BGI UK" <Vivek Rai barclaysglobal com>]

Hi Joseph, 

> 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

> My best guess is you are missing a DTD package.

Thanks a lot for your pointers. You were spot on, you just hit the nail
there!!

>From your analysis, it became clear that it had to be one of the
docbook-dtds packages.. I also realized from the error message you had
highlighted below that it was looking for DTD V4.1.. While I had V4.1.2
(which apparently, isnt very backward compatible!)

So, I just installed a docbook-dtd41 package.. Fired the make again...
and things seem to be going further!! 

Thanks a lot.. 
Vivek

P.s. I am not a member of this list, but if you feel like, please do
post this to the garnome-list.. For future reference by fellow linuxers!
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -Joseph
> 
> ==============================================================
> =================
> 
> yours:
> ------
> 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/wor
> k/main.d/fontconfig-2.2.96/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml
> 
> 
> 
> mine:
> -----
> 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:
> --------------
> 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/fo
> ntconfig-2.2.96/fc-cache/../fc-cache/fc-cache.sgml
> <joss debian org>
> JosselinMouette2003Josselin MouetteSep 16, 2003Done.
> 
> 
> ==============================================================
> ============================================
> 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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