[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#439214: Bug#439214: docbook2x-man runs without error but produces no output

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 23:08 -0400 schrieb Adrian Mariano:

[..]
> > > I don't actually know anything about docbook, I was just trying to
> > > assemble the scripts to do the above.  It sounds like either my
> > > texinfo source is defective
> > 
> > Hm. Not sure. Your texinfo produces fine Docbook XML, so I don't think,
> > it's "defective" ...
> > 
> > > or the texinfo command that generated the
> > > docbook file isn't doing the right thing.  
> > 
> > ... but it produces a book instead of a refentry. So I think, the
> > command doesn't do the right job for you. You should check, when/if this
> > command prepares a refentry from texinfo files.
> 
> It appears that it never prepares a refentry.  At least, there's no
> mention of this possibility.  Is this something that could be easily
> wrapped around the output that is produced?  Or would it be more
> involved?  

I guess, you would need to (a) write your own custom stylesheet to
produce groff output from a book or (b) write an own stylesheet that
converts the book into a refentry, which can then be processed with the
original stylesheets. Maybe there are more possibilities. You should ask
on the docbook-apps mailing list.

> > > Note, however, that the example you mention above didn't work either:
> > > 
> > > % docbook2x-man examp.xml
> > > /usr/bin/iconv: illegal input sequence at position 526
> > > /usr/bin/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error
> > 
> > Do you use an ext3 filesystem with dir_index enabled? You are maybe
> > bitten by
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430118
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425928
> > 
> > Can you check this?
> > 
> > dumpe2fs /dev/whatever | grep "Filesystem features"
> 
> Looks like I do have ext3 with dir_index enabled:
> 
> Filesystem features:      has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype
> needs_recovery sparse_super large_file
> 
> I couldn't figure out from reading the book reports: is there a fix
> for this?  

"Fix" /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini and move

> [XML::SAX::Expat]
> http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1
> http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1
> http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1

to the end of the file, as also mentioned in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=67;bug=425928.

Regards, Daniel