Hi folks, When I build alfs with blfs tools or ablfs I always get a bunch of errors during first run: .... I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/x/lib/lib.xml:6: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" ]> ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/x/lib/agg.xml:14: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" ]> ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/xincludes/static-libraries.xml:3: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" > ..... ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/appendices/glossary.xml:6: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" ]> ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" validity error : Could not load the external subset "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" Document /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/index.xml does not validate make: *** [/mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/blfs-xml/tmp/blfs-full.xml] Error 3 make: Leaving directory `/mnt/build_dir/blfs_root'
ERROR: Error 2 at common/libs/func_install_blfs line 39! I saw a post a few years back with a similar problem with solution to upgrade libxml2. I have 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4 version and make does not complain about libxml2 at all. I'm building lfs-7.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit for x86 platform: svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/trunk jhalfs make While running make second time I get only one warning and build continues: Making XML book making HTML book (may take some time...) Generating the build scripts ... I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd /mnt/build_dir/blfs_root/book.xml:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> ^ SCRIPT is 002-z-expat FTPDIR is expat .... Is something wrong with my initial setup or alfs scripts needs some tweaking/fixing? Regards, alexey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page