--- festival-1.4.3.orig/lib/tts.scm
+++ festival-1.4.3/lib/tts.scm
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@
   "xxml_elements
 List of Scheme actions to perform on finding xxML tags.")
 
-(defvar xml_dtd_dir libdir
+;; Hacked for Debian.  Better solution would be to get RXP to
+;; understand /etc/sgml.catalog.
+(defvar xml_dtd_dir "/usr/share/sgml/festival"
   "xml_dtd_dir
 The directory holding standard DTD form the xml parser.")