also: ploticus vs pl (was: Re: docbookx.dtd requirement)

[Joost van Baal]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:13:50PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:17:28PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just tried to install the latest cvs-snapshot and found that
> > > docbookx.dtd is required, version 4.1.2. FreeBSD comes with version
> > > 4.2 and Lire is on that platform not able to build pdf/html-output.
> > 
> > The docbookx.dtd is shipped with the current FreeBSD ports collection,
> > so is today's "standard" version on any version of the FreeBSD operating
> > system.  (Just to get the impact of your message clear to all.)
> > 
> > You could try to force Lire to use _your_ version of the DocBook XML
> > DTD, by running
> > 
> >  ./configure --with-docbookdir=/path/to/your/4.2/docbookx.dtd
> 
> This trick works, only now it's complaining it can't find ploticus.
> It's probably `ploticus' under Debian, it's `pl' under FreeBSD.

Run configure as

 PATHTOPLOTICUS=/usr/local/bin/pl ./configure

> It's no problem for me, I'll just add a patch-file for it when I
> finish the port

You'd probably not even need to patch the Lire tarball.

> , but you might run into this later for the other BSDs

Probably, yes.  I'll hack our configure.in so that it tries to look for
`pl' next to `ploticus'.  The final Lire 1.2 should run out-of-the-box.

Thanks!  Bye,

Joost

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