Re: compiling problem: trouble with man pages error 2 trying to make gnome-control-center

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 08:46 -0700, Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I tried to compile gnome-control-center and am running into a
> problem. When I try to 'make' gnome control center, it gets quite far
> into the process, but ultimately bombs out with this:
>
> Making all in man
> make[2]: Entering directory
> '/home/maintaineer/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gnome-control-center-3.20.2/man'
>   GEN      gnome-control-center.1
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge
> .net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
> warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.n
> et/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
> cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpa
> ges/docbook.xsl
> Makefile:650: recipe for target 'gnome-control-center.1' failed
> make[2]: *** [gnome-control-center.1] Error 4
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/maintaineer/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gnome-
> control-center-3.20.2/man'
> Makefile:541: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/maintaineer/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gnome-
> control-center-3.20.2'
> Makefile:473: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Now that the configure script successfully completes its run, I was
> expecting smoother sailing.
>
> I suppose I could try removing the man pages make dependency from the
> makefile target. But this shouldn't even be necessary. Maybe the url
> or retrieval method is broken? Any other suggestions?

Looks like your setup doesn't have network access. This shouldn't be a
problem if you're building from tarballs, but you'll need to either
have a network connection, or point the url in the Makefile.am to a
local file. On a Fedora rawhide system:
file:///usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.2/manpages/docbook.xsl

Cheers