Re: xmlto package install question

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Hallo Patrick,

Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 11:57 schriebst du:

> Hi,

> my Cygwin xmlto installation (v0.0.14) is missing all the fo formats 
> (dvi, pdf, ps) in /usr/share/xmlto/format/docbook, and the fo subfolder 
> is missing from the /usr/share/xmlto/format/ directory completely. 
> Without those files xmlto is unable to create the corresponding target 
> document formats (provided the corresponding toolchain is installed).

> Talking to Tim Waugh, the author of xmlto, revealed that all formats are 
> installed unconditionally. So I wonder why they didn't get installed on 
> my system.

> Is anybody else missing those files or do they get installed on your 
> systems? In particular the files in question are:

Yes, and looking in the source package I see in the patch:

-nobase_pkgdata_DATA = format/docbook/dvi \
+nobase_pkgdata_DATA = \
        format/docbook/fo \
        format/docbook/html \
        format/docbook/html-nochunks \
        format/docbook/xhtml \
        format/docbook/xhtml-nochunks \
        format/docbook/man \
-       format/docbook/pdf \
-       format/docbook/ps \
        format/docbook/txt \
        format/docbook/htmlhelp \
        format/docbook/javahelp \
-       format/fo/dvi \
-       format/fo/pdf \
-       format/fo/ps \
        xmlto.mak


Also I think that it doesn't work as expected, i.e. no error is
displayed when s.th. fails, just the usage information which is not
helpful for finding the error:

$ make 2>&1 | tee log.make02
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/e/ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/software/windows/cygwin32/release/xmlto/xmlto-0.0.14'
for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do \
  FORMAT_DIR=./format XSL_DIR=/usr/share/sgml/docbook-xsl \
   bash ./xmlto man -o man/man1 ./doc/$xml ; \
done
usage: xmlto FORMAT [OPTION]... XML
OPTIONs are:
  -v              verbose output (-vv for very verbose)
  -x stylesheet   use the specified stylesheet instead of choosing one
  -m fragment     use the XSL fragment to customize the stylesheet
  -o directory    put output in the specified directory instead of
                  the current working directory


It only works if you swap 'FORMAT [OPTIONS]' to '[OPTIONS] FORMAT'
which is what I found in the patch included in the source package.

Also this annoying behaviour is not documented in the README or
elsewhere (besides the patch in the source package).

Also to send upstream:
It is not possible to specify an alternative to
'XSL_DIR=$(top_srcdir)/xsl' when running configure which makes it
neccessary to manually link the xsl directory to the sourcedir or to
manually edit the Makefile templates.


Gerrit
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