Re: How to build manpages on OS X

Steven Grimm [off-list ref] writes:

The real solution is to use local copies of the files it's trying to
fetch. These files are installed as part of one of the dependencies
when you install xmlto, but the install process doesn't tell the
system where to look for them! To use these local copies, you need to
do two things.

Sounds like a DarwinPorts bug (or lack of feature, or maybe
feature still being added but not given to the public, I dunno).

My understanding is that these catalogs are maintained
automatically by the distribution when stylesheets are
installed.  For example, on Debian systems, xml-core seems to
offer the infrastructure and .postinst scripts for packages such
as docbook-xsl use update-xmlcatalog tool to make sure the
stylesheets they install are found locally on the system.

In any case, thanks for the write-up.

Annoying that it doesn't just work, but hopefully this will save
someone some Googling around.

I've added a pointer to your message at gmane archive on Gitwiki
page (GitDocumentation).