Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > I just double checked the installation I did several weeks ago on my > RHEL5 machine here at work. Allowing for a different directory > structure, I get the same results as I described above. > > I suspect that if you start fresh and untar the > docbook-dsssl-1.79.tar.bz2 file, you'll find this: > > After untarring, /sources/docbook-dsssl-1.79/ will contain an empty > doc directory. > > After untarring docbook-dsssl-doc.1.79.bz2, according to the BLFS > book's instructions, doc will still be empty -- this is my point -- > but a new directory in sources/docbook-dsssl-1.79/ will have been > created, named "docbook-dsssl-1.79". This one will contain doc and > docsrc. Within this doc will be testdata and other stuff. That > testdata directory is where you must cd to in order to run the > tests. > > Just so we're on the same page, could you do the above and see what > you get? Otherwise, we're getting inconsistent results from untarring > the same sources.
The book does say "Ensure you unpack both the source and documentation tarballs before beginning the build" That should be reworded. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
