Re: Building Documentation in Cygwin

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2009, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vskn4y4zt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0901271027s61a33273lfe9dd702a66aac6@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> you might also want to try getting the cygwin package docbook-xml42.
>>
>> Sure enough, I didn't have that installed.  Turns out I should've done
>> that part first too, as it appears to have fixed my problem.  Thanks
>> so much!
>
> Well, I take that back.  I built the docs successfully on the machine
> that is connected to the net.  I couldn't build them on the offline
> box.  Currently my solution is to build them on this box and then
> manually move them over to the offline box.  It'd be nice to not have
> to do this though... :\
>
> Anyway, further help is appreciated! :)

The xml toolchain has a tendency to download dtds from the original source with a way for you (typically your distribution) to tell it to use a locally installed version. "Can build online, fail when offline" is a sign that it is not using the local copy.