Re: Shouldn't docbook-xml/xsl set XML_CATALOG_FILES?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> within a few day I stumbled twice over this: When using docbook-xml or
> docbook-xsl in a package description, one needs to set XML_CATALOG_FILES
> to make xslproc (and others) find the catalogs.
>
> Shouldn't XML_CATALOG_FILES be defined as native-search-paths?

It is, but in libxml2, since libxml2 is the piece of software that does
getenv("XML_CATALOG_FILES").

Now, what’s problematic, is that often users don’t install libxml2
itself but rather tools that happen to be linked against libxml2.  This
is where the problem is: <https://bugs.gnu.org/22138>.

> BTW: For docbook-xsl the directory-name includes version, while for
> docbook-xml it does not. Which one should be used?

Dunno, we should just follow what upstream does I guess?

HTH,
Ludo’.