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 $docname in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Publican.pm line 586, <FH> line 12. ... <more errors omitted> ... Cannot locate main XML file: '.xml' at /opt/local/bin/publican line 789 Could you please file a bug on this? I'd still like to see if we can troubleshoot it on IRC as well, if you have the time. On May 18, 2012, at 9:11 AM, George Grenley wrote: > Here is the complete log file. I have some additional information as well. > Stand by.... > > > <PublicanBuildAttempt> > > On May 17, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > >> Hi George, >> >> What you have posted is not the build error (yet) as far as I can see. Is >> this the same log you sent me earlier? If not, can you attach it or pastebin >> it somewhere and post the URL? OSX is definitely not a "supported" platform >> yet, but a few of us have been able to make this work and I'm sure we can >> get it sorted out. >> >> Thanks, >> Misty >> >> Misty Stanley-Jones, RHCE >> Supervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Content Services, Brisbane >> ☺: misty (Freenode IRC) ✉: [email protected] >> >> On May 18, 2012, at 1:05 AM, George Grenley wrote: >> >>> So, I ran the script from Redhat's site: >>> https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/Installing_OSX >>> >>> The full text is shown at the end of this email. >>> >>> It blew up at the command (my quotes) "publican-2x grenley$ 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> publican-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list >>> Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican >> >> _______________________________________________ >> publican-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list >> Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican > > _______________________________________________ > publican-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list > Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
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