Re: libxml2 and DocBook problem

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> "make paranoid-install" doesn't succeed on my system due to a problem
> with DocBook XML.
> I've seen that the problem arises during build of libxml2 when it executes
> a script called "buildDocBookCatalog". This script tries to check the
> presence of version 4.1.2 of DocBook XML.
> 
>   Question 1: Is 4.1.2 the only version supported? or 4.4 is good as well?

AFAIK this one used to be pretty picky about which versions work. This
is why that particular versions is included in bootstrap/docbook-xml.

[...]

>   Question 2: Am I doing wrong?
> 
> It does not hurt, apparently. But I don't know exactly what I am going to obtain
> with that DocBook stuff.
> 
> My system is a "Linux From Scratch", so it is not so strange that scripts
> trying to autodetect things sometimes get confused.

If it works, this should be good enough. :)  Simply building that
particular garball from bootstrap/ would have done, too. :)

...guenther


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