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

[Bruno Victal]

Hi Hartmut,

On 2017-03-26 12:28, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

XML_CATALOG_FILES should be defined by the applications that do the
lookup such as libxml2, libxslt, etc.

This has been fixed in [1].

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

Likewise also addressed in [1].


[1]: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65479>

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Cheers,
Bruno.