Re: Troubles building man pages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 1, 2009, 02:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7hwjidt2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A9C8750.60308@lists.schang.net>

"Brian S. Schang" <git@lists.schang.net> writes:

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>>     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.

The following was an ancient experience of mine with a different distro but I am reasonably sure it would point you in the right direction.

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107387