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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ Issues of note:
- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
- - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
- partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
- repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use
- NO_PERL.
+ - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
+ features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
+ interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
+ live without these, use NO_PERL.
- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
@@ -157,3 +157,36 @@ Issues of note:
It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch
+
+ Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure
+ that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this:
+
+ <?xml version="1.0"?>
+ <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC
+ "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"
+ >
+ <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
+ <rewriteURI
+ uriStartString = "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current"
+ rewritePrefix = "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets"
+ />
+ <rewriteURI
+ uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5"
+ rewritePrefix="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5"
+ />
+ </catalog>
+
+ This can be achieved with the following two xmlcatalog commands:
+
+ xmlcatalog --noout \
+ --add rewriteURI \
+ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current \
+ /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets \
+ /etc/xml/catalog
+
+ xmlcatalog --noout \
+ --add rewriteURI \
+ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \
+ /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \
+ /etc/xml/catalog