id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related 4447,DocBook detection in autoconf is against an old version; patch enclosed,dankna,igloo,"Running ./configure on a stock 7.0.0.20101026 snapshot reports: {{{ checking for DocBook DTD... I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd conftest.xml:5: warning: failed to load external entity ""http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"" ]> ^ conftest.xml:6: element book: validity error : No declaration for attribute id of element book ^ conftest-book.xml:2: parser error : Entity 'ldquo' not defined A DocBook “Test Document” ^ conftest-book.xml:2: parser error : Entity 'rdquo' not defined A DocBook “Test Document” ^ conftest-book.xml:11: parser error : chunk is not well balanced ^ conftest.xml:7: parser error : Failure to process entity conftest-book &conftest-book; ^ conftest.xml:7: parser error : Entity 'conftest-book' not defined &conftest-book; ^ failed configure: WARNING: cannot find a DTD for DocBook XML V4.2, you will not be able to validate your documentation configure: WARNING: check your XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable and/or /etc/xml/catalog checking for xsltproc... /usr/local/bin/xsltproc checking for DocBook XSL stylesheet... no configure: WARNING: cannot find DocBook XSL stylesheets, you will not be able to build the documentation }}} But this is erroneous because I have laboriously installed DocBook's XSL many times. I traced the problem to the fact that autoconf was checking specifically for version 4.2, and I have installed version 4.5, which is the latest as of this writing. Bumping the version numbers in aclocal.m4 and running autoreconf fixed the problem. Patch attached.",bug,closed,normal,7.0.2,Build System,7.0.1 RC1,fixed,,dankna@…,MacOS X,x86_64 (amd64),Incorrect warning at compile-time,,,,,