From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 09:32:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848E616A418 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.93.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2153913C459 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:32:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from oaamta05sl.mx.bigpond.com ([124.188.162.219]) by omta03sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20071206054526.EZCB4366.omta03sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta05sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 05:45:26 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([124.188.162.219]) by oaamta05sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20071206054522.NYKX14529.oaamta05sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 05:45:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 77499 invoked by uid 501); 6 Dec 2007 05:45:16 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:45:16 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071206054516.GA71964@duncan.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Intermittent problems building GNOME docs from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:32:06 -0000 I'm in the process of re-building some parts of my gnome installation and have encountered a strange thing, and thought I'd ask if this was happening to anyone else, before I submit a pr. Not sure that a pr would help, in this case... What's happening is that most of the gnome doco gets processed by xlstproc, because it's DocBook XML of one form or another. What is happening to me is that I get errors like this: error : Operation in progress http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbcentx.mod:64: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsb.ent" %ISOamsb; ^ Entity: line 1: %ISOamsb; ^ Pointing a web browser (epiphany in my case) at the file in question finds it, no trouble. Re-running the make also proceeds past that point, so the fault is clearly intermittent. I'm on a good cable internet connection, and run a local DNS cache, so I can't see why I would be having a problem here *unless* the www.oasis-open.org site was actually under some stress, and dealing with it by killing connections. Is it? Shouldn't these DTD files be installed on the local system by the various docbook-* ports (which I have)? If everyone in the world has to hit the Oasis site whenever they want to format a document, that would seem to be a strategy with a scaling problem... Cheers, -- Andrew