Re: Sync (44): documentation/Makefile.in

[Vincent Béron]

Le jeu 17/07/2003 à 14:22, Jon Griffiths a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've never had any luck with the default make rules for the html
> books. I'm running (more or less) Mandrake 8, and it seems that
> db2html from that distribution doesn't respect the current directory
> when computing relative paths, so it always fails to find the .dsl
> file and bombs. The following patch fixes this for me, and hopefully
> should work for everyone else too.

Yea, I know. You're not the only one.
> - $(DB2HTML) -d $(SRCDIR)/default.dsl -o $* $<
> - $(DB2HTML) -d `pwd $(SRCDIR)`/default.dsl $<

Why do you keep $(SRCDIR) after pwd? man bash and man pwd both say
nothing about giving pwd a path...

What's really needed is either use our own db2html (but that was struck
down already in the past), or test in configure the behaviour of the
system's db2html and act accordingly.

Also, ideally there'd be only one standard for db2htmls...

Vincent

Sync (44): documentation/Makefile.in

[Jon Griffiths]

Hiya,
> Why do you keep $(SRCDIR) after pwd? man bash and man pwd both say
> nothing about giving pwd a path...

you're right, theres no need for it, it just gets swallowed by the
backticks so i didn't notice.
> What's really needed is either use our own db2html (but that was
> struck
> down already in the past), or test in configure the behaviour of
> the
> system's db2html and act accordingly.

All we need is the full path in the argument to -d, rather than the
relative path we get at the moment; I believe this will work with all
versions of db2html.
> Also, ideally there'd be only one standard for db2htmls...

Yup, sadly, its too late for that. I think this is a bug in earlier
db2htmls where it 'forgets' that it has decended into a directory to
make the html and should adjust any relative dir paths accordingly.
Later versions (correctly) fix the bug, so its more of a backwards
compatability issue than having to support a bunch of truly
incompatable versions, AFAICS.

Cheers,
Jon

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Sync (44): documentation/Makefile.in

[Alexandre Julliard]

Jon Griffiths  writes:
> Yup, sadly, its too late for that. I think this is a bug in earlier
> db2htmls where it 'forgets' that it has decended into a directory to
> make the html and should adjust any relative dir paths accordingly.
> Later versions (correctly) fix the bug, so its more of a backwards
> compatability issue than having to support a bunch of truly
> incompatable versions, AFAICS.

There's no reason to worry about being compatible with broken versions
of the script; very few people need to generate the documentation, and
these people can upgrade to a properly working script.