From: "Holly Bostick" motub@planet.nl
I will first say that I did get the docs to compile (so now I can read and edit them), *but* I had to compile all formats to do so.
Sorry about that, the French version is still not up to par.
I also tried make html en (since I have no use for the French version either); that also failed with the same error, but that may not be a valid command -- the README doesn't really say that I can combine the <type> and <lang> switches, but I thought I'd try.
You just have to change dir to the en/ dir: cd en; make html That would do what you want to accomplish.
So I have no idea whether installing docbook-sgml and sgmltools-lite had any effect, or whether make html is just not properly working for some reason, but I thought I should report the experience.
Thank you! Let's hope someone fixes the French docs building issues (hint, hint! :)).