Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] problem with configure script on scrollkeeper 0.3.12

[Malcolm T. <ma...@co...>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:32:27PM -0500, Joel Sinor wrote:
> This may be somewhat of a newbie question, but I have not found an
> answer elsewhere and do not know where else to turn for advice.  My
> problem is that the check for docbook xml does not seem to work
> properly on my system.  I am sadly somewhat ignorant as far as
> dockbook, xml, and scrollkeeper, but I am rapidly remedying this
> situation (the main purpose in installing scrollkeeper atm is to make
> gnome-terminal work, though I am sure there are many useful things to
> do with this.
> 
> Briefly, my problem is as follows.  I am getting the following error
> during the configure step:

[...]
[Chopping out all the diagnostic stuff]

Well, you seem to have taken all the right steps to working out if there
is a problem. Unfortunately, as you have noticed, it appears like
everything should be working. The configure script works for everybody
else (as far as I know -- I guess we would here the screams if something
broke), so I am not really sure what to suspect.

One possibility is the shell you are using; some configure scripts have
broken with various bash upgrades over the past year or so, but I
thought the scrollkeeper one was pretty portable. Maybe we need to look
at that again. What shell and what version are you using?

[...]
> So I don't know if I am doing something wrong or something is odd on
> my system.  I am running Sourcemage Gnu Linux 0.51 on an Athlon XP
> platform if it is important.  Since the actual choice of software and
> the compilation are being driven by Sourcemage spells I am going to
> also check with that group to see if they have input.  Also if there
> is something relatively harmless I can do to hack this process and
> make it go I will be grateful for suggestions.  I am loathe to try
> hacking around the configure script without being sure of what I am
> doing ;).

You could remove the test for the DTD altogether from the confgure.in
file and then rerun autogen.sh to recreate the configure script.
However, this might be fiddly to make it fit into the Sourcemage build
process. I do not really understand how Sourcemage do their build stuff,
so I cannot suggest much here, but if they come back with any
information about how to fix the problem, please let us know.

Right at the moment, I am suspecting something strange either about your
distribution or about your particular setup. The fact that the commands
work properly on the command line for you is a bit disconcerting.

> Thank you very much for your patience and help.  I know this is a
> developer list but there don't seem to be other lists associated with
> this package and it is a compile problem I am having...

It's the right list to ask about problems of this nature, since it is
the only scrollkeeper list around and the build process is certainly
developer territory (if it's broken).

Sorry I can't be of more help, but at the moment this problem has me
befuddled.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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