Troubles building man pages

From: Brian S. Schang <git@lists.schang.net>
Date: Sep 1, 2009, 02:30 UTC
Message-ID: <4A9C8750.60308@lists.schang.net>

Hello:

I am having problem building the man pages for git v1.6.4.2. I am getting the follow stream of errors: (sorry for the long lines)

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> # make ASCIIDOC8=Yes man
> GIT_VERSION = 1.6.4.2
> make -C Documentation man
> make[1]: Entering directory `/raida/packages/git/Documentation'
>     GEN doc.dep
> make[2]: Entering directory `/raida/packages/git'
> make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/raida/packages/git'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/raida/packages/git/Documentation'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/raida/packages/git/Documentation'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/raida/packages/git'
> make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/raida/packages/git'
>     ASCIIDOC git-add.xml
>     XMLTO git-add.1
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
> /raida/packages/git/Documentation/git-add.xml:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
> D DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
>                                                                                ^
>     ASCIIDOC git-am.xml
>     XMLTO git-am.1
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
> /raida/packages/git/Documentation/git-am.xml:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
> D DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"

I have read through INSTALL and Documentation/README. I have tried to cover all dependencies, but I suspect that I'm missing something simple.

Note that 'git' itself compiles fine and I can build the HTML pages fine also. It seems to be the man pages that cause the problem.

Note that I am using openSUSE 11.1. I was able to build the man pages on my older openSUSE 11.0 machine, but not any longer.

I would appreciate any advice you are willing to share.

Thank you.

-- 
Brian Schang