[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New Releases
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:06:26 -0600
Christian,
With liblouisxml and liblouisutdml you can define another directory as
containing tables and files. You just give it as the path to your
configuration file.
Personally, I think environment variables are not a good idea. In any
case, it would not work well with BrailleBlaster. The new
lou_setDataPath enables the program itself to tell the libraries where
the liblouis/tables and libluisutdml/lbu_files directories are located.
The nodes for the new functions are currently defined as just comments.
They need to be tied in with the other nodes and put in the indexes,
etc. I understand that this can be done easily with emacs. Just look for
the comment indicator @c
The C part of the Java bindings is indeed included in the tarball and is
linked in as part of the library. However, the Java part is not. It is
in a subdirectory of the java directory called src/org/liblouis I put
Makefile.am's in the src, org and liblouis directories, but they aren't
registering with autotools.
I think that configure.ac should be modified to check for a Java
compiler and only build the Java bindings if one is found on the system.
Thanks,
John
Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:09:03AM +0100,
Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi John
>
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > liblouis-2.2.0.tar.gz and liblouisutdml-1.6.0.tar.gz are now on the
> > downloads page of http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
> Thanks for doing a new release!
>
> > They make the libraries completely relocatable, even on Linux. Look in
> > the documentation in the tarball for lou_setDataPath and
> > lou_getDataPath.
>
> I looked at the change in svn. It appears that you can programmatically
> set the path to the tables. I don't quite understand this, as I thought
> you were able to do that before with the environment variable
> LOUIS_TABLEPATH?
>
> What I wanted for a long time (end even had a try at implementing) was
> to have an env variable that would let you define a list of paths for
> tables. That way you could have your own local tables somewhere and the
> "system" tables someplace else. You could then for example define
> LOUIS_TABLEPATH="/path/to/local/tables:/path/to/system/tables".
>
> > The documentation does need to be put in the right format. I'm not
> > sure I can do this.
>
> What is it that needs to be done with the documentation? How can I help?
>
> > There are Java bindings, but I have to figure out how to get autotools
> > to include them in the tarball.
>
> What are you trying to do? From looking at the source it appears that
> you are including the bindings in the tarball, but you are not building
> them. There is some minimal support in automake for compiling java
> files. Look at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Java.html#Java.
> Maybe I could help but I'm quite busy for the next two weeks.
>
> Thanks
>
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