Installing Git 1.5.2.3 on Mac OS X TigerEdit
These notes were made while installing Git for the first time (version 1.5.2.3 is the latest version at the time of writing) on Mac OS X Tiger.
The only dependency I had no choice but to install was the Expat library. Building and installing the documentation, however, has one "nightmare dependency" (asciidoc) and being the masochist that I am, I decided to try installing that as well.
# get source for Expat dependency from:
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
# extract
tar xzvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd expat-2.0.1
# build
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
# get source for asciidoc dependency from:
# http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
wget http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc-8.2.1.tar.gz
# extract
tar xzvf asciidoc-8.2.1.tar.gz
cd asciidoc-8.2.1
# install (requires Python 2.3 or later)
sudo ./install.sh
# test (should generate doc/asciidoc.html)
rm doc/asciidoc.html
asciidoc doc/asciidoc.txt
# grab the source from the Git homepage:
# http://git.or.cz/
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.2.3.tar.bz2
# extract source
tar xjvf git-1.5.2.3.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.2.3
# build
make prefix=/usr/local ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease all doc
(As an aside, note that I later found out that even passing in the ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease compatibility switch didn’t yield correct output and I had to downgrade to AsciiDoc 7 as described in "Setting up the Git documentation build chain on Mac OS X Leopard".)
It turns out that the "nightmare dependency" isn’t really asciidoc in itself; it was relatively easy to install as shown above. The real problem comes when the build process expects to find an xmlto command:
xsltproc --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css -o user-manual.html http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl user-manual.xml
ID recommended on preface: Preface
rm -f git-add.xml+ git-add.xml
asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
-agit_version=1.5.2.3 -o git-add.xml+ git-add.txt
mv git-add.xml+ git-add.xml
xmlto -m callouts.xsl man git-add.xml
make[1]: xmlto: Command not found
make[1]: *** [git-add.1] Error 127
rm git-add.xml
make: *** [doc] Error 2
Note that the Git build itself works but the documentation build fails. It appears that this (xmlto) is an unlisted dependency in the Git installation documentation. I found xmlto here:
But it depends on getoptlong; although Mac OS X has it’s own, BSD-derived getoptlong, this doesn’t seem to be acceptable to xmlto. The Linux flavor of getoptlong in turn depends on the enormous GNU gettext.
# download gettext dependency (required by getopt) from mirror:
# http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
wget ftp://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/GNU/gnu/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.16.1.tar.gz
# extract
tar xzvf gettext-0.16.1.tar.gz
cd gettext-0.16.1
# build
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
# download getopt dependency (required by xmlto) from:
# http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/
wget http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/files/getopt-1.1.4.tar.gz
tar xzvf getopt-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd getopt-1.1.4
In order to successfully build getopt I had to make a small modification to its Makefile:
47c47
< LDFLAGS=
---
> LDFLAGS=-lintl
I could then proceed:
# build
make
# install
sudo make install
# download xmlto from
# http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/stable/
wget http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/stable/xmlto-0.0.18.tar.bz2
# extract
tar xjvf xmlto-0.0.18.tar.bz2
cd xmlto-0.0.18
# build
./configure
make
make check
# install
sudo make install
Installation failed with the following error messages:
mkdir -p -- . /usr/local/man/man1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 man/man1/xmlto.1 /usr/local/man/man1/xmlto.1
install: man/man1/xmlto.1: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 man/man1/xmlif.1 /usr/local/man/man1/xmlif.1
install: man/man1/xmlif.1: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install-man1] Error 71
make: *** [install-am] Error 2
The cause is apparently:
This is caused by the absence of correctly configured XML Catalogs on your system. When XML Catalogs are available, URLs are transformed into local file references. In particular, Debian does not provide XML Catalogs. For more information about XML Catalogs see the xsltproc documentation.
In order to set up appropriate XML catalogs:
# turn on XML catalog debugging
export XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1
# try making again, to gather debugging info
make
Output:
Resolve: sysID http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
Failed to parse catalog file:///etc/xml/catalog
Resolve URI http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
Catalogs cleanup
Free catalog entry
So we start by creating an empty catalog file:
sudo mkdir /etc/xml
sudo xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog
# install latest version of DocBook XSL sheets
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/docbook/xsl
cd /usr/local/share/docbook/xsl
sudo wget http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.72.0.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjvf 1.72.0.tar.bz2
# add DocBook catalog to local catalog
sudo xmlcatalog --noout \
--add 'nextCatalog' '' 'file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml' \
--create /etc/xml/catalog
Unfortunately after doing this the xmlto build still doesn’t complete without errors, although the diagnostic messages are different:
make all-am
for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do \
FORMAT_DIR=./format XSL_DIR=./xsl \
bash ./xmlto -o man/man1 man ./doc/$xml ; \
done || ( RC=$?; cat ./FAQ; exit $RC )
Resolve: sysID http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
-1610559488 Parsing catalog file:///etc/xml/catalog
file:///etc/xml/catalog added to file hash
file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml not found in file hash
-1610559488 Parsing catalog file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml added to file hash
Using rewriting rule http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Resolve: pubID -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN sysID http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
Resolve URI http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
/Users/wincent/trabajo/unversioned/git/xmlto-0.0.18/./doc/xmlif.xml:4: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
^
Note: meta source : No productname or alternative xmlif
Note: meta source : No refmiscinfo@class=source xmlif
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative xmlif
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version xmlif
Note: meta manual : No ancestor with title xmlif
Note: meta manual : No refmiscinfo@class=manual xmlif
Note: Writing xmlif.1
Catalogs cleanup
Free catalog entry file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
Free catalog entry file:///etc/xml/catalog
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.72.0/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.72.0/
Free catalog entry file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
Free catalog entry
Resolve: sysID http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
-1610559488 Parsing catalog file:///etc/xml/catalog
file:///etc/xml/catalog added to file hash
file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml not found in file hash
-1610559488 Parsing catalog file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml added to file hash
Using rewriting rule http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Resolve: pubID -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN sysID http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
Resolve URI http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
/Users/wincent/trabajo/unversioned/git/xmlto-0.0.18/./doc/xmlto.xml:3: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
^
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative xmlto
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version xmlto
Note: Writing xmlto.1
Catalogs cleanup
Free catalog entry file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
Free catalog entry file:///etc/xml/catalog
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.72.0/
Free catalog entry http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.72.0/
Free catalog entry file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xsl/1.72.0/catalog.xml
Free catalog entry
Even with these warnings make check now passes:
make check-TESTS
PASS: xmlif/test/run-test
==================
All 1 tests passed
==================
And sudo make install works as well.
But to get a warning-free build I decided to try installing the DocBook 4.2 files as well. I couldn’t find a downloadable archive of these so I used wget to create a local mirror:
# create mirror
cd /usr/local/share/
sudo mkdir -p docbook/xml
cd docbook/xml
sudo wget -r -np -nH -l 0 --cut-dirs=2 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2
# set up catalog reference
sudo xmlcatalog --noout \
--add 'nextCatalog' '' 'file:///usr/local/share/docbook/xml/4.2/catalog.xml' \
--create /etc/xml/catalog
# now back to xmlto directory
cd path_to_xmlto_build_directory
make clean
make
This seems to yield the closest thing to an error/warning-free build possible:
make all-am
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -MT xmlif/xmlif.o -MD -MP -MF "xmlif/.deps/xmlif.Tpo" -c -o xmlif/xmlif.o `test -f 'xmlif/xmlif.c' || echo './'`xmlif/xmlif.c; \
then mv -f "xmlif/.deps/xmlif.Tpo" "xmlif/.deps/xmlif.Po"; else rm -f "xmlif/.deps/xmlif.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
gcc -g -O2 -o xmlif/xmlif xmlif/xmlif.o
for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do \
FORMAT_DIR=./format XSL_DIR=./xsl \
bash ./xmlto -o man/man1 man ./doc/$xml ; \
done || ( RC=$?; cat ./FAQ; exit $RC )
Note: meta source : No productname or alternative xmlif
Note: meta source : No refmiscinfo@class=source xmlif
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative xmlif
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version xmlif
Note: meta manual : No ancestor with title xmlif
Note: meta manual : No refmiscinfo@class=manual xmlif
Note: Writing xmlif.1
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative xmlto
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version xmlto
Note: Writing xmlto.1
After again performing the Git documentation build (this time successfully) I was able to proceed with the installation:
# back to the Git build directory:
cd path_to_git_build_directory
# build
make prefix=/usr/local all doc
# run tests
make prefix=/usr/local test
# install
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc