Re: [PyX-devel] minor comments about 0.6.3 tarball, Debian package for PyX 0.6.3

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 08.05.04, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> apt-get build-dep python2.3-pyx
> apt-get install devscripts latex2html
> apt-get source python2.3-pyx
> debuild binary

I've tried that and it doesn't work for me either. I've used the
package from Debian unstable, since its available now.

Faheem, could you try whether you step into the same problem. I've
patched latex2html in order to get it working. Just make a local copy
of the perl script latex2html and apply the following patch:

--- /usr/bin/latex2html	2004-04-23 14:57:26.000000000 +0200
+++ latex2html	2004-05-11 14:27:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -4811,7 +4811,10 @@
 		if ($cmd =~ /$sizechange_rx/o) {
 		    $pc_after = &$cmd_sub($pc_after, $open_tags_R);
 		} else {
-		    $pc_after = &$cmd_sub($pc_after, $open_tags_R);
+		    if ("$cmd_sub" ne "do_cmd_textohtmlinfopage")
+		    {
+		      $pc_after = &$cmd_sub($pc_after, $open_tags_R);
+		    }
 		};
 	    } elsif ((defined &$cmd_msub)&&!$NO_SIMPLE_MATH) {
 #print "\nMCMD:$cmd_msub :  ";

You can than run the creation of the html pages by
PATH=.:$PATH make html
in the manual subdirectory (put the patched latex2html into that
directory).

In case this helps for you as well, you may understand better whats
going wrong here. I just don't understand it (my perl knowledge is
quite limited). I would expect that the subroutine
do_cmd_textohtmlinfopage is callable (at least its defined), but this
seems to fail.

I should note that there seems to be at least two additional problems.
First mkhowto fails due to a missing
/usr/lib/python2.3/doc/html/style.css later on. I havn't yet
investigated it further -- it might be an error in the python package,
but I'm not sure at all. And finally the png creation seems to be
disabled somehow (note that the png we're creating in the Makefile are
for usage in pdf only). I didn't look into that issue either.


André

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