Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: srcdir/objdir issues and including variableusability issues with xsltproc

[John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:47:19PM -0800, Alex Lancaster wrote:

> I understand, and it's why I am suggesting the catalog.in extraction
> as a possible generic solution.

I have things working now, and will post documentation of what I did so
the archives can find something for "autoconf".

> JL> I am not not even providing RPMs ! This issue is totally unrelated
> JL> really.
> 
> No it isn't unrelated, because my point was that pre-built "binaries"
> (they aren't really binaries in this case) whether they be RPMs or
> .deb or whatever, are about the only way to reliably distribute
> packages for non-developers.

I meant it was unrelated to my problem, sorry for not being clear.

> It's not such a problem for C programs, again because GCC is mature
> and pretty much standard for all distros at this point, whereas the

It's not a problem for C programs, because GCC has a simple, clear,
obvious method for finding include files (BOTH system and local), of
which the basics can be understand in 5 minutes. These XML tools have
gone for an XML way which is enormously difficult to use in comparison.
But I don't want to get into "name calling" :)

I think I've made the point anyway.

> I will see what I can come up with your test case and send to you.

Thanks for pointing out the problem, I will see what DV thinks about it.

regards,
john