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

["Gabriel M. Elder" <gabriel tekgnowsys com>]

Well, that's the weird thing. I do have network and internet access on that machine; it's jacked into my router via ethernet and pulls up web pages just fine. As a quick-and-dirty workaround, I had made a backup copy of the Makefile, and modified the working copy, removing the man page stuff (because that's really not the focus of what I was trying to work on anyway, and they were already installed system-wide by default) thusly:

gnome-control-center-3.20.2]$ diff Makefile.configured Makefile
90d89
< am__append_1 = man
445,446c444,445
< SUBDIRS = libgd po panels shell search-provider $(am__append_1)
< DIST_SUBDIRS = libgd po panels shell man search-provider
---
> SUBDIRS = libgd po panels shell search-provider
> DIST_SUBDIRS = libgd po panels shell search-provider

Which gets back to my question about a possible bad url (which seems to be disproven by firefox) or broken retrieval method (looking more likely at this point). I was able to build gnome-control-center with this modified makefile.

Although, your suggestion about using a local filesystem uri got me curious, so I did:

gnome-control-center-3.20.2]$ grep -nir docbook.xsl *
man/Makefile.in:650:    $(AM_V_GEN) $(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROC_FLAGS) http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $<
man/Makefile.am:10:    $(AM_V_GEN) $(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROC_FLAGS) http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $<
man/Makefile:650:    $(AM_V_GEN) $(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROC_FLAGS) http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $<

Then I:

0) backed up my mods

1) dnf -y install docbook-xsl

2) ./configure

3) make

Which completes successfully, resulting in a working binary (and man pages (which is besides the point ;)). So the configure/automake must not have originally found the '/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1/manpages/docbook.xsl' (on Fedora 24), and instead used a fallback method (presumably involving retrieval of that url via some method), which apparently does not accomplish what was intended.

fyi and thanx,

- Gabriel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: compiling problem: trouble with man pages error 2 trying to
make gnome-control-center
From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
Date: Thu, February 23, 2017 8:56 am
To: "Gabriel M. Elder" <gabriel tekgnowsys com>, gnomecc-list gnome org

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