Bug 29067

Summary: RFE docbook2* cannot use non-system backends
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ed Bailey <ed>
Component: docbook-utilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Version: 7.1CC: ed
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Description Ed Bailey 2001-02-23 15:52:04 UTC 
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The jw wrapper script called by docbook2* blindly prepends
"/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6/backends/" to all backend names.  This
makes it impossible for an individual to produce a customized backend for
their own use.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Copy a backend from the docbook-utils backend directory to your current
working directory.  Name it something different, like "foo". Then try to
use it, either via "-b foo" or "-b complete/path/foo".  No dice...


Expected Results:  It would be preferable for the -b option to handle
backend selection a bit more intelligently.  At the least, it should
respect any relative or absolute path passed as part of the -b option. 
Over and above that, doing something like proccessing a $PATH-like variable
to select backends might be nice, but I'd personally be satisfied if "-b
some/path/foo" worked... :-)
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-02-23 16:14:24 UTC 
Not sure if handling relative paths is a good idea, since it could still be a
system backend.  I have a patch for handling absolute paths properly though.
Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-02-23 21:51:06 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-02-24 10:06:09 UTC 
Patch applied in docbook-utils-0.6-11.