[Scrollkeeper-devel] Building the unstable ScrollKeeper

[Dan M. <d-...@uc...>]

Hi,

In order to build the unstable ScrollKeeper from CVS, as well
as the upcoming 0.3 release, one needs to have the latest
DocBook/SGML tools installed as specified in the LSB.
Starting with 7.1, Red Hat has moved over to these tools.  I'm
not sure whether any other distributions have made the move yet
or when they plan to.  (Anybody know?)  Even if you have RH 7.1, you will
need to upgrade/install a few packages.

To upgrade a Red Hat distribution, you should uninstall,
upgrade, and install the following:

Remove:
        docbook
        stylesheets
        jade
        (gnome-doc-tools if you have it)

Upgrade:
        sgml-common
        openjade
        jadetex

Install:
        libxml2
        libxml2-devel
        libxslt
        libxslt-devel
        xml-i18n-tools >= 0.8.4
        perl-SGMLSpm (neede by docbook-utils)
        sgml-tools
        docbook-utils
        docbook-utils-pdf
        docbook-style-dsssl
        docbook-dtd30-sgml
        docbook-dtd31-sgml
        docbook-dtd40-sgml
        docbook-dtd41-sgml
        docbook-dtd41-xml
        docbook-dtd412-xml
        (gnome-doc-tools-2 if you hack on GNOME)

Optional:
        psgml

To make things a bit easier, I have uploaded most of these RPMs to:
     http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/sk_kit5/
since the sourceforge ftp site was misbehaving :(

This should be sufficient to get things working on Red Hat.
Note that if you use a modified DocBook DTD, like GNOME 1.x
does, then you should build docs with "jw -c /etc/sgml/catalog
file.sgml -o dir" instead of db2html.  The stable (1.x) version
of ScrollKeeper should still work fine with these newer tools.

If anybody has any problems or amendments to this information,
please email me or this list.

If anybody has information about how to get things working on
other distributions, please email this list with instructions.

Dan

PS: I'll be out of touch of email for a couple days, so I won't be able to
respond to replies right away.