Re: bug report, v1.7.12.1 -- user-manual.xml:3739: parser error

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2012, 07:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpq54gfem.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120930021524.01d314d5.hesco@campaignfoundations.com>

Hugh Esco <hesco@campaignfoundations.com> writes:

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> doing a source install of git v1.7.12.1, 
> on the `make all doc` step, I get:
>
> user-manual.xml:3739: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: emphasis line 3739 and literal
>   char <emphasis role="strong"></literal>, but is actually expected to be a poin
>                                          ^
> user-manual.xml:3741: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: literal line 3741 and emphasis
> mit.  Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as <literal>unsigned char </emphasis>
>                                                                                ^
> unable to parse user-manual.xml
> make[1]: *** [user-manual.html] Error 6
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/git-git-51993a4/Documentation'
> make: *** [doc] Error 2

Thanks for a report.

I and other regulars on the list who run "make doc" are not getting that error (otherwise the source wouldn't have tagged as a release), so there must be some difference between the environments that are supported and your setting.

As described in the INSTALL document at the top-level of the source tree, our documentation toolchain has external dependencies on asciidoc, xmlto, and docbook-xsl among other things. My quick check seems indicate that I am using asciidoc 8.5.2-1, xmlto 0.0.23-2, and docbook-xsl 1.75.2.

What version are you using? It could be you are using a newer version of something that is backward incompatible we haven't encountered (or you could be using a version that is too stale).