[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Louis
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ken Perry <kperry@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:07:30 -0600
Ken,
Thanks for your suggestions. It won't be hard to put in more configure
options to compile, say, just the library. I don't have problems
configuring for paths different from the default path, so this may be a
problem with the ARm platform. We will use the latest releases of the
autotools in our own next releases. This may solve some problems.
Since you are quite well known and your message contains a lot of good
thoughts I am taking the liberty of copying the liblouis-liblouisxml
list on this reply and your original message. I hope this is all right.
John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:40:50AM -0500, Ken Perry wrote:
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> I know you wanted a version for Windows but I have not got to it yet. I
> did however compile it for the Braille+ because we are thinking of
> replacing our current translator but I ran into some problems compiling
> it for the ARM platform that I thought you would like to know about. We
> have to restage everything so I ran into a problem with the man files. It
> seems that it can't find one of the man files if I change the install
> locations from the default. I was able to hack around this to get a build
> by just removing man from the targets in the Makefile after the configure
> stage. This is not an optimal fix though and I would suggest the
> following:
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> First make sure all paths can be reconfigured it seems like they can but
> it doesn't seem to work perfectly and that might be that the build system
> was just changed in the last release to include the man and docs.
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> Second I think some more configuration options might need to be added for
> example I am building this package for a small platform. What is needed
> is to be able to pass in some config options and tell it I just want to
> build the library not the tests, docs, man, and I am not sure what the
> GNULib is so I am not sure if I need it or not. I probably need all the
> tables but it might be good if you can cherry pick which of the packages
> you are installing. So maybe there should be a with and with-out option
> for each of the folders.
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> After we get it working the way we want for the Braille plus it might end
> up on things like the Book Port+ and we also have a few windows
> applications we want to use it on. The reason we are even thinking of
> switching from our in house version is Louis already supports Unicode and
> ours does not as of yet and rather than hack it in it might be better to
> switch to something that is more supported. I want to help out though so
> I have a question.
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> I am not a big auto config tools person I am wondering how hard it is to
> do what I suggested above with doing the with and without statements. I
> code in just about any language so I can pick stuff up quick but it would
> be helpful if I had an example of how to go about doing this do you have
> suggested documentation on the autogen tools and how to twiddle with it?
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> Ken
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