[Po4a-devel] Error building 0.41 on FreeBSD

[Renato Botelho]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010/12/29 Renato Botelho wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2010/12/27 Renato Botelho wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to update po4a to 0.41 on FreeBSD ports collection, but
>>>> i got following error when i try to build it:
>>>>
>>>> Discard _build/pod/3/ru/lib/Locale/Po4a/Xml.pm (36 of 161 strings;
>>>> only 22.36% translated; need 80%).
>>>> Processing untranslated files for po4a-build.xml (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
>>>> Died at Po4aBuilder.pm line 32.
>>>> *** Error code 2
>>>>
>>>> If I run manually a wget
>>>> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
>>>> i can download it without problems.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, it's not common to download stuffs during configure or
>>>> build time on FreeBSD ports, is there a way i can download
>>>> those files before build process start?
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> That's strange, we run xsltproc with the --nonet option in order to
>>> not download stylesheets.
>>> Can you please run
>>>  sh -x ./share/po4a-build -f po4a-build.conf
>>> to see which command barfs?
>>
>> It's really using --nonet option as you mentioned, but it seems to be trying
>> to download anyway, maybe it's a xsltproc problem?
>>
>> + [ po4a = po4a ]
>> + eval_gettext 'Processing untranslated files for $X (1). . .'
>> + gettext 'Processing untranslated files for $X (1). . .'
>> + envsubst --variables 'Processing untranslated files for $X (1). . .'
>> + export PATH X
>> + envsubst 'Processing untranslated files for $X (1). . .'
>> Processing untranslated files for po4a-build.xml (1). . .+ echo
>>
>> + MANDIR=_build/po4a/man/man1/
>> + XML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/xml/catalog xsltproc -o _build/po4a/man/man1/
>> --nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
>> share/doc//po4a-build.xml
>> 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
>> Died at Po4aBuilder.pm line 32.
>> *** Error code 2
>
> I can reproduce this error message when setting a wrong path in
> XML_CATALOG_FILES; it is likely that your XML catalogs are not located
> in /etc/xml/catalog.  I do not understand why this variable is set,
> xsltproc should normally know about system catalogs. You can try to
> remove all lines setting this variable in share/po4a-build.

Bingo! This way it built fine.

-- 
Renato Botelho