[publican-list] Failure of Publican Install on Os X Lion 7.2.3

Thu May 17 23:31:13 UTC 2012

Looking into the error more, I think you have run into a bug. Something is going on when the book is being created, which is causing it not to know its own name (or some other vital info about itself).

Quadritarium:publican-2x grenley$ publican create --name=testbook
Use of uninitialized value $docname in substitution (s///) at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 496, <FH> line 11.
Use of uninitialized value $product in substitution (s///) at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 506, <FH> line 11.
Use of uninitialized value $product in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 586, <FH> line 12.
<more errors omitted>

 Then, when you build the book, it tries to use a file called '.xml' rather than <bookname>.xml like it should:

Quadritarium:testbook grenley$ publican build --formats=html --langs=en-US
Use of uninitialized value $docname in substitution (s///) at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 496, <FH> line 11.
Use of uninitialized value $product in substitution (s///) at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 506, <FH> line 11.
Use of uninitialized value $product in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 586, <FH> line 12.
Use of uninitialized value $docname in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 586, <FH> line 12.
...
<more errors omitted>
...
Cannot locate main XML file: '.xml' at /opt/local/bin/publican line 789

Could you please file a bug on this? I'd still like to see if we can troubleshoot it on IRC as well, if you have the time.

On May 18, 2012, at 9:11 AM, George Grenley wrote:

> Here is the complete log file. I have some additional information as well. Stand by....
> 
> 
> <PublicanBuildAttempt>
> 
> On May 17, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> 
>> Hi George,
>> 
>> What you have posted is not the build error (yet) as far as I can see. Is this the same log you sent me earlier? If not, can you attach it or pastebin it somewhere and post the URL? OSX is definitely not a "supported" platform yet, but a few of us have been able to make this work and I'm sure we can get it sorted out.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Misty
>> 
>> Misty Stanley-Jones, RHCE
>> Supervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Content Services, Brisbane
>> ☺: misty (Freenode IRC) ✉: misty at redhat.com
>> 
>> On May 18, 2012, at 1:05 AM, George Grenley wrote:
>> 
>>> So, I ran the script from Redhat's site:  https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/Installing_OSX
>>> 
>>> The full text is shown at the end of this email.
>>> 
>>> It blew up  at the command (my quotes) "publican-2x grenley$ perl ./Build.PL"
>>> 
>>> The first little bit of error messages went like this:
>>> 
>>> A    publican-2x/po/publican.pot
>>> Checked out revision 2050.
>>> Quadritarium:~ grenley$ cd publican-2x/
>>> Quadritarium:publican-2x grenley$ perl ./Build.PL
>>> WARNING: the following files are missing in your kit:
>>> 	META.json
>>> 	META.yml
>>> Please inform the author.
>>> 
>>> Creating new 'MYMETA.yml' with configuration results
>>> Creating new 'Build' script for 'Publican' version '2.9'
>>> Quadritarium:publican-2x grenley$ ./Build
>>> Name "Win32::Locale::Lexicon" used only once: possible typo at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/I18N/LangTags/Detect.pm line 140.
>>> Name "Publican::Localise::en_us::Lexicon" used only once: possible typo at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/Locale/Maketext.pm line 404.
>>> Building Publican
>>> 
>>> DEBUG: Publican: config loaded
>>> Setting up ar-SA
>>> 	Merging ar-SA/Conventions.po >> en-US/Conventions.xml -> tmp/ar-SA/xml_tmp//Conventions.xml
>>> WARNING: Fuzzy message in PO file.
>>> "<literal>Mono-spaced Bold</literal>"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> this continues for hundreds of lines....  (I can attach a file if you need it.)
>>> 
>>> What have I done wrong? It has been suggested that I need to tell the thing to use the MacPort Perl, not OS X Perl, but I have no idea how to do that. There is also talk of needing to mod some default paths.....
>>> 
>>> Cheers!
>>> George
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Web Page Installation Text:
>>> 
>>> • Install Xcode from Mac App Store.
>>> 		• It is about 4 GB. Be prepared to wait.
>>> • Install Macports from  http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.html. Everything you install with it goes into /opt/local, away from your normal OS files.
>>> 
>>> • Open a terminal.
>>> 
>>> • Install dependencies for Publican which are available as ports.
>>> sudo port install docbook-xml docbook-xsl docbook-sgml-4.2 perl5 bash-completion p5-file-pushd p5-config-simple p5-file-find-rule p5-file-slurp p5-class-trigger p5-time-hires p5-list-moreutils p5-ipc-run3 p5-class-accessor p5-test-perl-critic p5-xml-libxslt p5-locale-gettext p5-image-size p5-file-copy-recursive p5-datetime p5-archive-zip p5-timedate p5-html-format p5-dbd-sqlite p5-xml-simple p5-devel-cover p5-test-pod p5-test-pod-coverage p5-template-toolkit 
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> • Install CPAN modules for dependencies which can't be satisfied with ports. The first line forces Makefile::Parser to install even though its tests fail.
>>> sudo cpan Locale::Maketext::Gettext Locale::PO DateTime::Format::DateParse Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate XML::TreeBuilder
>>> 
>>> • Install FOP if you want PDFs to work:
>>> sudo port install fop
>>> echo "FOP_OPTS='-Xms50m -Xmx700m'" > ~/.foprc
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> • Check out Publican 2.x branch:
>>> svn co http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/publican/branches/publican-2x
>>> cd publican-2x/
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> • In the publican-2x directory, run:
>>> perl ./Build.PL
>>> ./Build
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> • Run the following command to install Publican and put all of its bits into /opt/local
>>> sudo ./Build install
>>> 
>>> Create and build a book
>>> 
>>> publican create --name=testbook
>>> cd testbook
>>> publican build --formats=html --langs=en-US
>>> 
>>> 	• Open the tmp/en-US/html/index.html in a browser to prove that it built properly.
>>> 
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