Subject: Re: bug#22131: gtk-doc fails to build on all platforms

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:43:22 +0200

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:29:14 -0500
Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The gtk-doc builds started failing on all platforms when the following
> security updates were added:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * 3470fe0..: Mark H Weaver 2015-11-16 gnu: libsndfile: Add fixes for CVE-2014-9496 and CVE-2015-7805.
> * b4a88dc..: Mark H Weaver 2015-11-15 gnu: libxslt: Add fix for CVE-2015-7995.
> * ee6bb0c..: Mark H Weaver 2015-11-15 gnu: libxml2: Add fixes for CVE-2015-{1819,7941,7942,8035} and other bugs.
> * 328a14e..: Mark H Weaver 2015-11-15 gnu: libpng: Update to 1.5.24 [fixes CVE-2015-8126].
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The failure occurs during 'configure', as follows:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> checking for XML catalog... /gnu/store/b0xwhwj1725c10xcylwd65hdr8avjfh8-docbook-xml-4.3/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml
> checking for xmlcatalog... /gnu/store/bhpr505s620iq099ndg8vp1ih4idv9fi-libxml2-2.9.2/bin/xmlcatalog
> checking for DocBook XML DTD V4.3 in XML catalog... found
> checking for DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog... not found
> configure: error: could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog
> phase `configure' failed after 3.6 seconds
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Whereas in earlier successful builds, the corresponding output was:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> checking for XML catalog... /gnu/store/b0xwhwj1725c10xcylwd65hdr8avjfh8-docbook-xml-4.3/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml
> checking for xmlcatalog... /gnu/store/ny0sc2ix5w41z4dgc6nffhmpfy8izv99-libxml2-2.9.2/bin/xmlcatalog
> checking for DocBook XML DTD V4.3 in XML catalog... found
> checking for DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog... found
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
>       Mark
> 

Normally I've found these are fixed by looking at the input. What changed
with docbook-xml? The libxml2 changes?

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