openjade segfault on Postgres PDF: flow object not accepted by port

[Josh K. <sch...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to build a PDF of the PostgreSQL documentation on an
Ubuntu 10.10 machine, but I've run into a long-standing[1] segfault in
openjade for which I haven't found a workaround. I'm using the
standard Ubuntu packages (Openjade 1.4devel1-19build1, OpenSP
1.5.2-8).

To reproduce:

  git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
  cd postgresql/doc/src/sgml/
  # you might have to hardcode the location of collateindex.pl in COLLATEINDEX
  # if you get a complaint from make about not being able to find this file
  make postgres-A4.pdf

I get the following error when I try the last step:

$ make postgres-A4.pdf
openjade  -D . -D . -c
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/catalog -d
./stylesheet.dsl -t tex -V tex-backend -i output-print -i
include-index -V texpdf-output -V '%paper-type%'=A4 -o
postgres-A4.tex-pdf postgres.sgml
openjade:./stylesheet.dsl:664:2:E: flow object not accepted by port;
only display flow objects accepted
make: *** [postgres-A4.tex-pdf] Segmentation fault
make: *** Deleting file `postgres-A4.tex-pdf'

Searching around for this error message, I can see plenty of people
have gotten similar problems, but I haven't found anything that works
for me. The Postgres docs[2] suggest increasing some memory limits for
jadetex, but this didn't help me. There was also a recent thread
suggesting some magic to be used in a jadetex.cfg file[3], but this
didn't have any effect for me either :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Josh

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[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2003-12/msg00026.php
[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/docguide-build.html
[3] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-04/msg00022.php