[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New Releases
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:33:22 -0600
Thanks for fixing the documenntation.
I'll add these Makefiles to configure.ac and check how help2man is
handled.
I'll also have a look at making the LOUIS_TABLES environment variable
handle multiple paths.
Thanks for your help,
John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:03:17PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> My use case is mainly that I have multiple directories where the braille
> tables are located. For example when testing I have a directory with
> test tables yet they might include standard tables, so I need to look in
> both directories for tables. Right now I just copy the test tables into
> the same directory as all the other "system" tables which isn't very
> elegant.
>
> > 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 just commited a fix for the documentation. All should be well now.
>
> > 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.
>
> You need to add all the Makefiles to the configure.ac file, e.g. as
> follows
>
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
> gnulib/Makefile
> doc/Makefile
> java/Makefile
> java/src/Makefile
> java/src/org/Makefile
> java/src/org/Makefile
> java/src/org/liblouis/Makefile
> man/Makefile
> lbu_files/Makefile
> liblouisutdml/Makefile
> liblouisutdml.pc
> tests/Makefile
> tools/Makefile
> m4/Makefile])
>
> That will at least get the Java file packed into the tarball
>
> > 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.
>
> That requires a bit more work. You might want to look at how invocation
> help2man is done in the liblouis configure.ac. I might be able to look
> into it after February 1st.
>
> Thanks
>
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