#5533 closed enhancement (fixed)

Give a better error message when docbook5 files are missing

Reported by: strk Owned by: strk
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 3.5.0
Component: documentation Version: master
Keywords: docbook Cc:

Description

Rather than these scary messages: https://github.com/postgis/postgis/actions/runs/6165616469/job/16733693326

It would be useful to know, say, at ./configure time, that the required docbook 5 tools are missing.

We need docbook5-xml to validate the XML and possibly also to create the html and pdf and epub versions

A possible way to check could be running:

xmlcatalog "" 'http://docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng'

Which should exit with an error when docbook5-xml package is missing, although we might be more specific about what we need

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Sandro Santilli <strk@…>, 15 months ago

In d9c9781/git:

Fail early and avoid error flood if docbook5 isn't found

References #5533

comment:2 by strk, 15 months ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
Type: defectenhancement

I think this is good enough as an error: https://github.com/postgis/postgis/actions/runs/6169683106/job/16744432185#step:4:2032

Closing as fixed

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