[lojban] CLL: Build with Docker.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

It has long been an issue that the CLL is hard to build.  This is
much better than it used to be (dropping LaTeX from the toolchain
made a *huge* difference), but it's still pretty finicky.  For
example, increasing the DocBook XSLT version by 1 broke everything.
For another, the exact list of fonts installed in the OS changes the
output dramatically.

It occured to me a couple of weeks ago that we have a solution for
this sort of thing: containers.

So, I have added Docker support to https://github.com/lojban/cll ;
if you use ./run_docker.sh instead of ./cll_build, it should work
the same except that it'll first build a Docker container for you.
This Docker container builds the CLL in a way that matches the
official builds, as far as I can tell, perfectly, except for a few
minor changes that have occured since the last official builds were
checked in.

Further, here's a direct copy of the Docker image if you'd like:

http://vrici.lojban.org/~rlpowell/media/public/cll_build_docker.tar.gz

Hopefully this'll make CLL dev less painful.

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