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[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> "Tom Browder" <tom.browder at gmail.com> writes:
...
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
...
>> What I meant is that maybe whatever it takes (within reason) to make
>> the correct pdf should be in the gnucash-docs source tree instead of
>> trying to find it with the autotools.
>
> Ah, I see.  Well, I suppose that's an option too.
>
>> Otherwise it seems that the right Makefile entries depend on finding
>> the right inputs in a set of many possibilities.
>
> True, but it's pretty easy to write a configure scriptlet that
> says something like:
>
>  if [ -d /path/to/place1 ] ; then
>     docbookargs="-- place 1"
>  elif [ -d /path/to/place2 ] ; then
>     docbookargs="-- place 2"
>  ...
>
> We try really hard not to load our tree with dependencies.  There
> are, however, times when we do need to for one reason or another.
> So I wouldn't rule it out, but honestly I'd rather see it working
> using an installed docbook tree.

Derek, I'm happy to try to do a Makefile patch, but I'm still trying
to determine the problem.

Is there a known correct solution using the docbook-xml stylesheets
with the current gnucash-docs xml source?

If so, can you point me to it.

Thanks.

-Tom