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Re: pspp 1.2.0 doc building without texinfo
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: pspp 1.2.0 doc building without texinfo |
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Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:29:04 -0800 |
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 07:18:03PM +0000, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I went to build PSPP 1.2.0 on the Mac without texinfo available, and it
> resulted in a build failure during doc/pspp.xml.
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> xmllint (from texi2any 6.5) complained of malformed XML, while providing
> texinfo resulted in a successful build. Error was just before chapter 11
> (variable attributes):
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> /usr/bin/xmllint --output /dev/null doc/pspp.xml,tmp
> ...
> doc/pspp.xml,tmp:491: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch:
> sect2 line 453 and screen
> </programlisting></screen>
It looks like PSPP uses xmllint only because of buggy old makeinfo
versions. If those versions are no longer in widespread use, maybe we
can stop using xmllint.