kernel build failures.

[Otto Haliburton]

here is a suggestion, check previous kernel builds to  see if they have 
started to fail, if not then the problem is isolated to the current kernel, 
else something has been brokien elsewhere


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Jones" <davej at redhat.com>
To: <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:36 PM
Subject: kernel build failures.


> The kernel build started failing a few days ago, but due
> to the holidays, I only just got around to looking at it.
> Here's how it's failing..
>
> + make mandocs
>  DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml
>  MAN     Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.9
> xmlto: input does not validate (status 3)
> /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.noarch/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml:3: 
> warning: failed to load external entity 
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
>                                                               ^
> warning: failed to load external entity 
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
> validity error : Could not load the external subset 
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
> Document 
> /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.noarch/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml 
> does not validate
>
>
> I believe what's happening here is that the builders don't have access to 
> the internet,
> so it's failing to download the DTD.   This has been the case always 
> though, so I'm
> not sure why it started failing now.  Perhaps xmlto only recently started 
> trying to
> retrieve the DTD ?
>
> I'm not sure how to go about fixing this.
> I could just add a copy of the dtd to cvs, and edit the .xml files
> to point to the local copies instead of trying to retrieve online ones,
> but this sucks because
> - it's one more thing to keep track of to make sure it's kept up to date
> - it's one more set of patches that we'll perpetually have to carry 
> against
>  the kernel that won't go upstream.
>
> The only other alternative I see is to stop building the man pages, which 
> also
> sucks, given it was a fairly recent (and worthwhile) addition.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave
>
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