Re: 0.8.5 Compile errors

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:04:07PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:57:04AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      > You need to install the xmllint program.  I have no idea where that is
>      > on Cento  - ask a Cento expert.
>      
>      I guess that we should probably document that xmllint is necessary, and
>      perhaps modify configure.ac to report an error if it is missing.
>      
>      I don't understand what the xmllint invocations are doing, though.
> 
> They are merely checking that the xml is valid if I recall correctly.

OK.  I guess that the correct thing to do, then, would be to skip the
tests if xmllint is not available?

> What interests me however, is why they are getting called at all.  I
> thought xmllint was only necessary when bootstrapping - it should not
> be required when building from the released tarball if I recall
> correctly.  Unless of course Daniel modified something in the
> documentation sources.

Daniel--did you build from a release tarball or from some other source?

Thanks,

Ben.