Gnumeric HTML creation is partially broken

[Randy McMurchy]

The Gnumeric page contains the following command and associated text:

"If you have GNOME Doc Utils-0.4.4 installed, you can convert the XML help files into HTML with the following command:

make -C doc html"

This command will *only* work if your $GNOME_PREFIX is /usr. If $GNOME_PREFIX is set to anything else, the command will fail. The reason being is that the Makefile in the gnumeric-1.6.1/doc/C directory uses $PREFIX/share to point to the GNOME Doc Utils support files. Of course, it will fail if GNOME Doc Utils was not installed with PREFIX of /usr.

There are two things I can think of (not just to fix Gnumeric, but for any and all packages that may expect GNOME Doc Utils to be in /usr) to fix this issue.

1) Change the installation prefix of GNOME Doc Utils to /usr. This is probably the preferred (and easiest) solution to implement. There is precedent of installing some GNOME packages in /usr. See the GNOME Icon Theme package.

Additionally, because files are being installed into $PREFIX/share/xml, which must already exist before GNOME Doc Utils is installed, it seems logical to install GNOME Doc Utils there (it creates a 'gnome' directory off of $PREFIX/share/xml).

2) This works, but should only be used if it is determined that GNOME Doc Utils should stay in $GNOME_PREFIX.

Create a symlink /usr/share/xml/gnome which points to GNOME_PREFIX/share/xml/gnome. This would then allow packages expecting to see GNOME Doc Utils in the BLFS conventional /usr directory to work.

[andy@…]

this sed may offer a solution

sed -i 's,$(datadir)/x,pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0/share/x,' \

doc/C/Makefile

Then run make -C doc html and it should just work.

[andy@…]

Another option is to run configure again like so:

./configure --prefix=pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0 && make -C doc html

[bdubbs@…]

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