[Scons-dev] Release 2.3.5

Dirk Bächle tshortik at gmx.de
Tue Jun 23 03:07:57 EDT 2015


Bill,

On 23.06.2015 01:27, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Dirk,
>
> If I build docs with system python it works fine.
>
> If I install libxml2-python it still failes with zero length files.
> If I uninstall lxml and run it again I get:
>
> [...]
>
> O.k. got it. Needed to also install libxslt. Probably need to figure out a way to give messaging on this rather than silently fail.
>

yes, this explains things. The Docbook Tool uses xsltproc/xmllint as a fallback when no libxslt is installed. But for the MAN page 
creation there has to be libxslt (see URL in my last email), so we need to add another check to "doc/SConscript" I guess.

Thanks for your detective work!

Dirk



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