Hi.

I am trying to set up a normal Redhat 6.1 based system which just sort
of works out of the box.

After installing the RPM's downloaded from a sourceware mirror I get

jade -v demo.sgm
jade:I: Jade version "1.2.1"
jade:I: SP version "1.3.3"
jade:demo.sgm:5:2:E: document type does not allow element "P" here;
assuming missing "DEMO" start-tag
jade:demo.sgm:7:2:E: document type does not allow element "P" here
jade:demo.sgm:8:22:E: end tag for "P" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was
specified
jade:demo.sgm:7:0: start tag was here
jade:demo.sgm:8:22:E: end tag for "P" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was
specified
jade:demo.sgm:5:0: start tag was here
jade:demo.sgm:8:22:E: end tag for "DEMO" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was
specified
jade:demo.sgm:5:0: start tag was here
jade:demo.dsl:3:0:E: document instance must start with document element
jade:demo.dsl:3:0:E: character data is not allowed here
jade:demo.dsl:3:0:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:5:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:6:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:11:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:12:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:18:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:23:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:3:32:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:0:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:1:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:2:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:3:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:4:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:5:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:10:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:11:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:4:20:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:5:0:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:0:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:8:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:9:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:10:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:11:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:16:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:17:E: meta-DTD does not allow data at this point
jade:demo.dsl:6:29:E: no document element
jade:demo.dsl:3:0:E: document did not contain any style-specifications
or external-specifications


while building with a verison of jade compiled by myself goes without
any trouble.

[ravn@asserballe dsssl]$ ../jade/jade -v demo.sgm
jade:I: Jade version "1.2.1"
jade:I: SP version "1.3.3"
[ravn@asserballe dsssl]$ 

I have now tried various incantations and other kinds of black magick
for the last few days, and now I would like a hint to what I am doing
wrong here.

_Please_ keep me CC'ed with any response, since now I would really
appreciate getting this up and working.  

Best regards,
-- 
  Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen               "...plus...Tubular Bells!"
  http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~ravn