Building the doc failes due to --nonet option of xsltproc
porst17 opened this issue · 7 comments
When I call make in doc, it fails with
GEN xdg-app.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.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
make: *** [xdg-app.1] Error 4
If I remove the --nonet from XSLTPROC_FLAGS in doc/Makefile.am and configure again, the documentation is built successfully (although it's building extremely slowly, i.e. it takes several minutes).
Not sure if this is supposed to be an optimization ... but it just didn't work for me.
This means you need some docbook package installed that has the xsl. I don't know what it is on ubuntu, but on fedora its the docbook-style-xsl package i believe.
On Ubuntu, it's
sudo apt-get install docbook-xsl
Builds very quickly afterwards.
Shouldn't the existence of the xsl files be checked by the configure script somehow?
By the way: make clean in doc doesn't delete the .1 files. I had to rm doc/*.1 to debug this issue.
I guess i can steal some auto* stuff for that.
fixed in master
The new check seems to work fine. I tested it in Ubuntu 14.04 after removing the package docbook-xsl and ./configure complained about the missing XLS stylesheet. Reinstalling docbook-xsl made it work again.
In addition, I had to install the package libxml2-utils. Otherwise, ./configure was unable to test for the style sheet via xmlcatalog.
Good job!
I just stole the checks from glib :)