how to build our branch?

[C. Michael Pilato]

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Right before leaving on vacation, I checked out our reorg branch
> (which wasn't yet different from trunk.)  As our README file
> instructed, (1) I dropped the docbook-xsl package into tools/ , (2) I
> made sure I had 'xsltproc' installed, (3) installed FOP and Jimi.  As
> expected, running 'make book-html' or 'make book-pdf' Just Worked.
> 
> Today I updated the branch, and got all of cmike's huge changes.  Now
> when I try to build, I seem to be missing tools and/or am getting hit
> by assumptions about things in /usr/share/xml/...
> 
> [sussman at BenMacBook:~/projects/svnbook/src/en]$ make book-html
> if ! test -e "../tools/xsl"; then ../tools/bin/find-xsl.py; fi
> xsltproc  --output book/svn-book.html \
>   `[ -d stylesheets ] && echo stylesheets || echo
> ../tools`/html-stylesheet.xsl book/book.xml
> ../tools/dtd/docbook-4.4/dbcentx.mod:308: warning: failed to load
> external entity
> "/usr/share/xml/entities/xml-iso-entities-8879.1986/ISOamsa.ent"
> 
> ...followed by a bazillion errors about 'unknown' entities such as mdash.
> 
> So, what new tools do I need?  Can we update our README accordingly?

You shouldn't need new tools.  There must be some path references in the
DTD set that aren't relative or somesuch.  Lemme take a look.

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>

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