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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2012-05-24 17:00:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2012-05-24 17:00:42 -0400 |
| commit | 5c651e258f759b7c12045cb2f4f9a75e580873b3 (patch) | |
| tree | c90ed7f2679b464fd9456cea3da7ae05105eb37f /build.txt | |
| parent | 13a325f2c030a79de4c98a8fec3be642a5f1a89b (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-5c651e258f759b7c12045cb2f4f9a75e580873b3.tar.gz | |
Explain how to cope on a stylesheet fetch failure.
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@@ -146,10 +146,11 @@ process: |============================================================================ |libxslt | xsltproc is used to build man pages from xml |docbook-xsl | style file for xml to man translation +|xmlto | DocBook formatter program |============================================================================ The build degrades gracefully in the absence of any of these. You should -be able to tell from configure messages which extensions you will get. +be able to tell from scons messages which extensions you will get. Under Ubuntu and most other Debian-derived distributions, an easy way to pick up the prerequisites is: "apt-get build-dep gpsd" @@ -202,6 +203,20 @@ by specifying CC=gcc4 before the build command. The rtcm2.c file confuses the gcc-3.4.[23] optimizer at -O2 level, making it generate incorrect code. +If, while building, you see a complaint that looks like this: + +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + +it means the xmlto document formatter is failing to fetch a stylesheet it +needs over the network. Probably this means you are doing a source +build on a machine without live Internet access. The workaround +for this is to temporarily remove xmlto from your command path so GPSD +won't try building the documentation. The actual fix is to install +DocBook on your machine so there will be a local copy of the +stylesheet where xmlto can find it. + After building, please run 'scons testregress' to test the correctness of the build. It is not necessary to install first, but you do need to have "." in your $PATH to run regressions uninstalled. Python is |