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Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)
- From: Shaddy Baddah <Shaddy dot Baddah at msa dot hinet dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:22:08 +0800
- Subject: Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)
- References: <878xzh8ulv.fsf@peder.flower>
- Reply-to: Shaddy dot Baddah at msa dot hinet dot net
Hi,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>>Probably, but a successful build of the Cygwin HTML documentation relies
>>on texi2html being present.
>
>
> Ah.
Nice one of me to come into the discussion a week late, but I've been
doing something recently that required texi2html.
Not wanting to gripe or anything, I genuinely appreciate all the
voluntary effort that goes into cygwin, but I flagged this a while back
(although I bumbled along in the thread):
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00554.html
Anyway, I just thought I'd flag another dependency on texi2html I have
perceived (not verified). At least when building Xemacs packages from
CVS, there is some dependency on this executable. Now, that suggests to
me that the xemacs-sumo would be dependant as well.
> It wasn't dropped intentionally, as it wasn't even supposed to be in 2.0.x.
>
> Indeed. I'm not sure what that means, maybe the --without-texi2html
> switch was broken in 2.0.x.
I just found this all out the hard way. I noticed the switch in the
mknetrel file for 3.0.0-3, and knowing that the executable was included
in 2.0.x, I wondered about the rationale of its' inclusion.
Looking for comment, I noticed that the switch was included in 2.0.x and
it became obvious that it shouldn't have gone into the build in the
first place.
That's when I decided to use the mailing list search function. Moral of
the (yes, rather boring) story is that you should always search the
mailing list first.
Otherwise, Debian has a whole package just for that script... is it
untrendy to follow suit?
Thanks for your attention,
Shaddy
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