Re: Docs build error in alpha1

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:47 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> > I think you have an old version of docbook-xsl.
>>
>> It's the latest available for CentOS 4.6:
>>
>> [buildfarm(at)bf-linux ~]$ rpm -q -a |grep docbook
>> docbook-utils-0.6.14-4
>> docbook-style-xsl-1.65.1-2
>> docbook-style-dsssl-1.78-4
>> docbook-dtds-1.0-25
>>
>> What do I need?
>
> I quick grep through the changelog suggests that docbook-style-xsl
> 1.69.1 or later will get you a lot closer.

Can we detect this and give the user a more helpful error message?
CentOS 4.x (and RHEL 4.x) are older distros certainly, but not exactly
ancient yet.

> Note that the release tarballs contain the built documentation, so maybe
> this isn't really necessary.

It would seem like wasted effort in that case.

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Dave Page
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