Re: How to build manpages on OS X

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> The real solution is to use local copies of the files it's trying to
> fetch. These files are installed as part of one of the dependencies
> when you install xmlto, but the install process doesn't tell the
> system where to look for them! To use these local copies, you need to
> do two things.

Sounds like a DarwinPorts bug (or lack of feature, or maybe
feature still being added but not given to the public, I dunno).

My understanding is that these catalogs are maintained
automatically by the distribution when stylesheets are
installed.  For example, on Debian systems, xml-core seems to
offer the infrastructure and .postinst scripts for packages such
as docbook-xsl use update-xmlcatalog tool to make sure the
stylesheets they install are found locally on the system.

In any case, thanks for the write-up.

> Annoying that it doesn't just work, but hopefully this will save
> someone some Googling around.

I've added a pointer to your message at gmane archive on Gitwiki
page (GitDocumentation).