RE: build of ghc-5.05.20021118 fails

> From time to time I try out one of the development snapshots.
> Does it make sense to report errors? Anyway, the the build of 
> ghc-5.05.20021118 fails with the following error message ...
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ==fptools== make html - --no-print-directory -r;
>  in 
> /var/tmp/portage/ghc-5.05.20021118/work/stage3-build/ghc/docs/
users_guide
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ../../../glafp-utils/docbook/db2html -d 
> /var/tmp/portage/ghc-5.05.20021118/work/stage3-build/docs/fpto
> ols-both.dsl   users_guide.sgml
> CATALOG file not set up; see installation guide for details.
> make[3]: *** [users_guide.html] Fehler 1
> make[2]: *** [html] Fehler 1
> make[1]: *** [html] Fehler 1
> make: *** [html] Fehler 1

Hmm, I thought the docs weren't built by default.  Did you ask for the
docs to be built by setting anything in your build.mk file?

The error means that the configure script couldn't detect the right way
to process DocBook documents on your system.  Since you're on Gentoo
(right?) I can tell you that the Gentoo DocBook setup works perfectly:
just 'emerge docbook-sgml', and re-configure your GHC build (remove
config.cache first) and you should be able to build the HTML docs.  To
build the printed documentation you'll need to install more stuff (TeX &
JadeTeX at least).

Oh, and BTW you can do a 3-stage build in a single tree these days.
Just 'make bootstrap3' from the top level.

Cheers,
        Simon