Re: [Confuse-devel] [PATCH] build: workaround xmlto/xsltproc bug that fails distcheck

[Nathan Phillip Brink]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:55:39AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> when building the documentation out of tree, xmlto will be unable to
> merge the generated entities with the tutorial if not on the same dir.
> 
> before calling xmllint, copy tutorial.xml to the working directory and
> create a tutorial.rm flag so it can be later removed.

I sent a patch that fixed xmlto itself to xmlto's maintainer in April and he 
promised that he would fix xmlto and make a bugfix release someday. This, of 
course, hasn't happened yet. I just sent another email to him so hopefully 
he'll wake up ;-).

However, maybe I'm crazy, but I'd prefer to hold off on this patch in the hopes 
that xmlto will be fixed. Having fewer workarounds in the buildsystem means a 
cleaner buildsystem. But I understand that this approach may not work for 
everyone.

I have attached my patch to xmlto in case if anyone's interested. Perhaps I'm 
making a bigger deal out of this than I should, though ;-).

-- 
binki

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