Further problems with gimp-help

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Mike Clarke wrote:

> Following suggestions from Jan Henrik Sylvester I installed
> www/webkit-gtk2 but still had the same problem. I subsequently
> discovered that if I started gimp from a terminal window instead of
> from the KDE menu I could access the local help files with no problem
> but still couldn't use the online help. Unfortunately I don't know if
> this would have worked before installing webkit-gtk2.

webkit-gtk2 is not installed here, but online help works.

> At this stage I was starting to wonder if I might have missed some
> crucial item in ports/UPDATING at some stage in the past and might have
> some dependency issues so I used a spare slice to set up a new test
> system.
>
> I created the new system by copying all the partitions from my working
> system, editing fstab to change device names and then running
> pkg_deinstall -af to remove all packages. Then I installed enough ports
> to run X and twm before attempting to install gimp.
>
> This time I got lots of the following warning messages while building
> gimp-help:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
> http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd
> xml/es.xml:2: warning: failed to load external
> entity "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"
> //OASIS//DTD DocBook XML
> V4.3//EN" "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> These didn't stop gimp-help from building and installing but, needless
> to say, gimp produced the usual errors about not having the user manual
> installed.

gimp-help depends on /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xsl.  You might 
deinstall that port, then clean and install.  Watch for a pkg-message 
after the install.  You should also check for "optimizations" in 
/etc/make.conf.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA