GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 123175
Build problems
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
1. Web page "http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallation.html" does not mention openjade/openSP dependency. 2. No instructions on how to add newer docbook files which are also a dependency. Found docbook-xml on the web but there are no instructions on how to install it so that gtk-doc will build. This is not a specific gnome problem but I cannot build without it.
The answer seems to be sgml-tools-1.0.9 for slackware.
gtk-doc is only for building API documentation, so users shouldn't need it. Only developers. If you don't have gtk-doc installed, the packages should all build fine, except they won't build the API docs. (Tarballs may ship with the API docs already built, so this may not even matter.) I think the problem occurs when people have gtk-doc installed but not openjade. That shouldn't really happen as gtk-doc should depend on it.
This is very similar to bug 90602 so I'll mark as a duplicate. Recent versions of GNOME have moved more towards using XML rather than SGML, so I'm not sure if openjade is required now. Maybe just the XML tools like libxslt are required. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90602 ***