docbook-utils: build failure ("X21B6" is not a function name)

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

This is how building docbook-utils fails for me:

make[2]: Entering directory `/path/to/docbook-utils/work/docbook-utils-0.6.14/doc/man'
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/opt/local/etc/sgml/catalog \
	SGML_SEARCH_PATH=../../doc:.. \
		onsgmls ../../doc/docbook-utils.sgml | \
		sgmlspl ../../helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/opt/local/etc/sgml/catalog \
	SGML_SEARCH_PATH=../../doc:.. \
		onsgmls ../../doc/docbook-utils.sgml | \
		sgmlspl ../../helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:8:19:E: "X21B6" is not a function name
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:9:19:E: "X21B7" is not a function name
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:10:17:E: "X21D3" is not a function name
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:11:18:E: "X21CA" is not a function name
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:12:18:E: "X21C3" is not a function name
onsgmls:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:13:18:E: "X21C2" is not a function name

[... lots of lines ...]

openjade:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:123:19:E: "X017E" is not a function name
openjade:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:124:19:E: "X017D" is not a function name
openjade:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:125:17:E: "X017C" is not a function name
openjade:/opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent:126:17:E: "X017B" is not a function name
make[2]: *** [backend-spec.html] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [api.html] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/path/to/docbook-utils/work/docbook-utils-0.6.14/doc/HTML'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/path/to/docbook-utils/work/docbook-utils-0.6.14/doc'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/path/to/docbook-utils/work/docbook-utils-0.6.14'

The file /opt/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/ent/iso-lat2.ent is provided by docbook-xml-4.1.2 which isn't even listed as a dependency.

[lockhart (Thomas Lockhart)]

Thanks. I know about this one (though have not yet developed a patch). There is an ordering problem in the dependencies, or a missing dependency, so this build is missing a catalog of characters. This catalog is present in one of the other ports.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

See also #50219.

[lockhart (Thomas Lockhart)]

This works for me, including the case where no catalog files exist:

sudo port uninstall docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 iso8879 docbook-xml-4.2 openjade docbook-sgml-4.2 docbook-utils p5.22-sgmlspm docbook-dsssl docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-ns sgml-common
sudo rm -rf /opt/local/etc/sgml /opt/local/etc/xml
sudo port install -s docbook-utils

The problem can be traced to side-effects from older versions of some of these ports, which left orphan entries in the top-level catalogs /opt/local/etc/sgml/catalog and /opt/local/etc/xml/catalog. If these are removed as above then the package should install and reinstall cleanly.

I believe that this problem report should be retired.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Duplicate of #37164.