Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] problem with configure script on scrollkeeper 0.3.12 *SOLVED!*

[Malcolm T. <ma...@co...>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:53:19PM -0500, Joel Sinor wrote:
> Thank you for your help with this problem.  I have found that the
> problem is really in my distrobution, which for some reason is
> altering the configure script before running it.  I was able to run
> the unmodified one fine.

Excellent! I must admit that it did not occur to me to compare the
snippet you posted to the original configure.in file, which maybe would
have saved us all some time.

> Below is a snippet of my post to the
> sourcemage users mailing list:
> 
> 
> On to my problem.  I was able to fix it, sort of, but it is not "really fixed" yet.  What I found is that in the original source for scrollkeeper the offending line does not have a !, so it reads:
> if xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" |
> grep "No entry" >/dev/null ; then
> 
> Honestly the ! smelled funny to me in the first place.  Anyway when I cast the spell, the resultant configure file in /usr/src/scrollkeeper-0.3.12 has:
>         if ! xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> | grep "No entry" >/dev/null ; then

Wow. That is pretty scary. :-(

If that is a systematic bug, then builds must be failing all over the
place for Sourcemage. The problem with things like this is that people
then sub-consciously put Sourcemage on a mental list of "distributions
which do slightly crazy things from time to time" and you start
suspecting distro problems when solving their problems -- whether
deserved or not. I hope its just a silly error that they can fix easily
across the board.

Thanks a lot for letting us know the resolution, it will probably help
somebody else at some point now that it is in the archives.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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