libX11 docs compilation failure

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Fri Oct 8 16:31:49 PDT 2010


On Oct 8, 2010, at 16:22, James Cloos wrote:

> Now that the docs are in the modules they document, building from git
> has become fragile.
>
> Today, libX11 failed to build because something called when building  
> the
> docs wanted a usable display.  For no good reason.

My guess is that this was fop:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26686
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50062

> Part of the problem is the use of xml for the docs, and the lack of  
> any
> reasonable stack to typeset xml.  Jade would produce reasonable output
> were it usable.  Fop is also unreliable and produces /horrid/ ouput.
>
> Plus, make install re-gens all of the docs.  The dependencies are  
> wrong.

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-October/013801.html

> It should be possible to build everything w/o a display.

Yes.



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