samba - Feb 2016 - Problems building Samba documentation - SOLVED

I have been trying to build Samba 4.3.4 from source. Everything goes 
fine except for the documentation. When I try to build it I always get 
errors like the following:

warning: failed to load external entity 
"http://www.samba.org/samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml"
manpages/smb.conf.5.xml:764: element include: XInclude error : could not 
load http://www.samba.org/samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml, and no 
fallback was found

When I try to input that URL on a browser I get:

The requested URL /samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml was not found on 
this server.

I would appreciate some advice by any member of this list.

Thank you

On 20/02/16 22:47, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> I have been trying to build Samba 4.3.4 from source. Everything goes 
> fine except for the documentation. When I try to build it I always get 
> errors like the following:
>
> warning: failed to load external entity 
> "http://www.samba.org/samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml"
> manpages/smb.conf.5.xml:764: element include: XInclude error : could 
> not load http://www.samba.org/samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml, and 
> no fallback was found
>
> When I try to input that URL on a browser I get:
>
> The requested URL /samba/smbdotconf/parameters.all.xml was not found 
> on this server.
>
> I would appreciate some advice by any member of this list.
>
> Thank you
>
>
This may be a problem with your OS, but as you haven't told us which OS 
you are using, I cannot help much. What I can tell you is, if you remove 
the xsltproc and docbook packages before running configure, you should 
be able to compile Samba4, but without the manpages.

Rowland

I succeeded in building the documentation. I didn't have the 
"docbook-style-xsl" package installed. The README for the
documentation
didn't mention it as a needed dependency.

Thank you all and in particular Marc Muehlfeld for pointing to the right 
direction.

On 21/02/16 20:32, Miguel Medalha wrote:
>
> I succeeded in building the documentation. I didn't have the 
> "docbook-style-xsl" package installed. The README for the 
> documentation didn't mention it as a needed dependency.
No, it doesn't, but it does here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_system_requirements/Dependencies_-_Libraries_and_programs

And that is where you should have been looking.


Rowland
>
> Thank you all and in particular Marc Muehlfeld for pointing to the 
> right direction.
>