Anch'io a quanto pare ho un problema simile con garnome 2.10:
codice:
make[9]: Entering directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libxml2'
[===== NOW BUILDING:    libxml2-2.6.17  =====]
        [fetch] complete for libxml2.
        [checksum] complete for libxml2.
        [extract] complete for libxml2.
        [patch] complete for libxml2.
        [fixup] complete for libxml2.
        [configure] complete for libxml2.
        [build] complete for libxml2.
Found DocBook XML 4.1.2 DTD in /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.1.2
Found ISO DocBook entities in /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.2/ent
could not locate chunk-common.xsl of DocBook XSLT stylesheets
make[9]: *** [post-install] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libxml2'
make[8]: *** [../../platform/libxml2/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[8]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/bootstrap/shared-mime-info'
make[7]: *** [../../bootstrap/shared-mime-info/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/gnome-mime-data'
make[6]: *** [../../platform/gnome-mime-data/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/gtk+'
make[5]: *** [../../platform/gtk+/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libglade'
make[4]: *** [../../platform/libglade/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libgnomecanvas'
make[3]: *** [../../platform/libgnomecanvas/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libbonoboui'
make[2]: *** [../../platform/libbonoboui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libgnomeui'
make[1]: *** [../../platform/libgnomeui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/giacomo/download/garnome-2.10.0/desktop/bug-buddy'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
Questo sembr l'inghippo: could not locate chunk-common.xsl of DocBook XSLT stylesheets

P.S.
ho impostato la variabile GARARCHIVE a /home/giacomo/gnome_2.10 , la dir dove ci sono i vari pacchetti dei sorgenti di gnome 2.10 presi dal CD della rivista linux magazine (ho una connessione 56K io!!!)

Per concludere.... AIUTO!!