From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22enterprise i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010217 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... :-)
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.
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Patch applied in docbook-utils-0.6-11.