Re: [docbook-apps] ANNOUNCE: docbook2X 0.8.2: convert to man pages and Texinfo

[Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:25:36PM +0900, Michael Smith wrote:
> Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:08:32PM -0400, Steve Cheng wrote:
> > > Hello all.
> > > 
> > > I have just released version 0.8.2 of docbook2X, a package to convert to man 
> > > pages and Texinfo.  
> > > 
> > > This release brings one major feature: support for table markup for man pages.
> > > For a list of the other changes, please see its home page:
> > > 
> > > <URL:http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net>
> > > 
> > > Now, it seems that a lot of people here use Windows for their DocBook work,
> > > and I have a request to get docbook2X to work on cygwin.
> > > Unfortunately I haven't been able to; so far libxslt refuses to build.
> > > Does anyone have any pointers? Thanks.
> > 
> > I update libxslt under Cygwin by downloading the Windows
> > binaries from Igor's site[1] and manually copying over 
> > the previous version's files.  Specifically, I use
> > these files from his distribution on my system:
> > 
> > ?windows?system32?libxml2.dll
> > ?windows?system32?libxslt.dll
> > ?windows?system32?libexslt.dll
> > ?windows?system32?iconv.dll
> > ?cygwin?bin?xsltproc.exe
> > ?cygwin?bin?xmllint.exe
> > 
> > Works just fine under Cygwin.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html
> 
> If you do that, when you're using absolute paths, what do the tools
> consider to be the root of the filesystem they're running in? Is it the
> root of the cygwin filesystem, or root of the Windows filesystem? (i.e.,
> do you need to prepend c:/cygwin/ or whatever to any absolute pathnames
> in catalog files, etc.?)

My XML catalog under Cygwin uses full Windows URIs
like uri="file:///c:/xml/docbook42/docbookx.dtd".
That works for xsltproc and Saxon under a Cygwin shell.

When I have to append to my Java CLASSPATH, I use
paths like "/xml/saxon652". That's a Windows path
without the drive letter.

On the other hand, my Cygwin PATH environment variable uses
Cygwin path naming, such as /usr/bin and /c/xml (I mount my C:
drive as /c in Cygwin).

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