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[Johnburrell]

The ./configure summary gives:

GNOME Power Manager 2.28.2
=============================

prefix: /usr
datadir: ${datarootdir}
compiler: gcc
cflags: -g -O2
Building extra applets: yes
HAL (brightness) support: yes
DPMS support: yes
Self test support: no
GConf default support: yes
Docbook support: no
documentation dir: ${datarootdir}/doc/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2
dbus-1 system.d dir:
dbus-1 services dir: ${datarootdir}/dbus-1/services
gconf-schema dir: $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas

Looks good, but make gives:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2/po'
Making all in docs
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2/docs'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2/docs'
Making all in man
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2/man'
docbook2man gnome-power-manager.sgml > gnome-power-manager.1
make[2]: *** [gnome-power-manager.1] Error 8
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2/man'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/gnome-power-manager-2.28.2'

docbook2man is found okay in /usr/bin/docbook2man. Is the problem that gnome-
power-manager.1 doesn't exist or is it a permission problem or something a
little more obscure?

Any help greatly appreciated.

jb

[Johnburrell]

The answer to this little puzzle is that docbook2man has a runtime dependency - SGMLSpm-1.03ii which is a Perl module and must be installed before docbook2man can convert the SGML file to the man pages. Nice little gotcha.

jb