2010-06-25 Compile Bitlbee UI-fix branch on Mac OS 10.4

Yeah, I know. Why the hell am I still using Mac OS 10.4 instead of upgrading – or moving to a Debian system? I dunno!

So I was trying to compile the ui-fix branch for BitlBee. It includes the killerbee branch, so it uses libpurple and all that.

• http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/ui-fix/ – which requires xmlto…
• http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/ – for the documentation, which requires getopt, gettext, and docbook…
• http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/ – to build xmlto; I also had to use LDFLAGS=-lintl in the Makefile to compile it.
• http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ – I already had gettext 0.17 installed, which is where libintl comes from
• next is... the nightmare that is docbook!! >{ http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-001.gif

=> http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-001.gif

=> http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/ui-fix/ | http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/ | http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/ | http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

I wasted a lot of time on this.

This is so sad.

The sun was shining, too.

I was unable to find something prepackaged for me. So I started to follow the instructions in DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide.

=> DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide

• Installing the DocBook DTD* – xmlto doesn’t use the latest one so I got version 4.2 – http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip and unpacked it. I wanted everything in /usr/local/share/xml so that’s what I did – sudo mv docbook-xml-4.2 /usr/local/share/xml...

=> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip

• Installing the DocBook stylesheets* – so now we need stylesheets to create the manpages. I got the following file: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl-ns/1.75.2/docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2.tar.bz2/download and used sudo mv docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2 /usr/local/share/xml...

=> http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl-ns/1.75.2/docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2.tar.bz2/download

• How to write an XML catalog file* – next I needed to write the catalog for the minimum stuff I needed. I created a the file /usr/local/share/xml/docbook.cat with the following content:

I set the environment variable in my .bashrc: export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/local/share/xml/docbook.cat.

And with that, make xmlto and make bitlbee worked!

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