[Hugs] #31: Cnfigure script of Hugs98-May2006 source build doesn't check for useable sgml-tools installation

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#31: Cnfigure script of Hugs98-May2006 source build doesn't check for useable
sgml-tools installation
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 Reporter:  guest   |       Owner:  nobody
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  minor   |   Milestone:        
Component:  hugs    |     Version:  200605
 Keywords:          |  
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I've been unable completely to build and install Hugs98 May2006 on
 Slackware Linux 10.1, thus:

 $ tar xvfz hugs98-plus-May2006.tar.gz
 $ cd hugs98-plus-May2006
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pkg/hugs98-plus.May2006
 $ make

 because of the following build errors:

 ...
 mkdir users_guide
 /bin/cp hugs-ug.css users_guide
 /bin/cp winhugs.png users_guide
 test -z 'docbook2html' || \
   docbook2html --dsl hugs-ug.dsl users_guide.sgml
 Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
 Using stylesheet: /local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-May2006/docs/users_guide
 /hugs-ug.dsl
 Working on: /local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml
 jade:/local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml:14:0:E: URL not supported by
 this version
 jade:/local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml:14:0:E: DTD did not contain
 element declaration for document type name
 jade:/local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml:15:9:E: there is no attribute
 "ID"
 jade:/local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml:15:22:E: element "BOOK"
 undefined
 jade:/local/d0p6/john/hugs98-plus-
 May2006/docs/users_guide/users_guide.sgml:16:9:E: element "BOOKINFO"
 undefined
 ...

 docbook2html comes from package sgml-tools, for which we have version
 1.0.9.

 Shouldn't the hugs98 configure script check that the available versions of
 docbook2html and the commands that uses in turn are suitable (a
 sufficiently late version) to complete the Hugs98 build?

 For the minute, I'll just disable the build of the documentation, but this
 is disappointing.

 John A. Murdie (john at cs.york.ac.uk)
 Department of Computer Science
 University of York

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