On October 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Bill Medland wrote:
Having just fallen over this might I suggest that the configure check also checks for lynx; if lynx is not installed then even though docbook2txt is present it fails.
Or is there a version of docbook2txt that doesn't depend upon lynx?
I have no idea how docbook2txt works, but we can't check for the entire graph of dependencies when checking for a feature. We have rpm(1) & friends for that task.
It isn't a rpm dependency on my system (RedHat 8.0), at least I presume it isn't since I didn't have any difficulty ending up with docbook2txt but no lynx.
OK. I guess it is enough to make people aware that if they try to build the documentation now and they get back a message that "No way to convert HTML to text found" then it probably means they need to install lynx.