For some reason 'sort -d' either loops forever or takes a VERY long time on Fedora Core 2. This breaks the docs build. Removing the -d fixes it for me, as in the following patch, but there may have been some good reason for using the switch...
Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/doc/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 Makefile --- Makefile 22 Jun 2004 14:06:56 -0000 1.4 +++ Makefile 30 Jun 2004 14:02:30 -0000 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ contributors.texi: ../ChangeLog Makefile texinfo-tabulate.awk cat ../ChangeLog | \ sed -ne '/^[0-9]/{s/^[^ ]* *//; s/ *<.*//; p;}' | \ - sort -d | \ + sort | \ uniq -c | \ sort -nr| \ sed -e 's/^[^A-Z]*//' | \