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

[Joel S. <js...@co...>]

I forgot to mention that I did eventually find out what was happening
with Sourcemage.  Now, compiling by hand would have worked in any case.
At issue was a change they made for a bug.  I have not tracked the bug #
down and corrected it, but essentially they were doing
$ more /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/gnome/scrollkeeper/BUILD
(
  sedit "s/if xmlcatalog/if ! xmlcatalog/" configure
  default_build
) > $C_FIFO 2>&1
$ 
So essentially my theory is someone got the error for the DTD not being
there and changed this so they would not get the error.  I will find out
why eventually, but this of course has the result that if you have the
dependency installed you will fail.  Sourcemage usually has things like
this in their spell script config files to fix broken ./configure and
make files (or at least things that are broken for their distro).
This will not affect any normal compilations, just compiles using their
scripts.  I will let you guys know when I find out more (have been
fighting other battles).

 On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:28:44 +1000
Malcolm Tredinnick <ma...@co...> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
> 
> 
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