[Scons-dev] portability of docbook tests

[Bill Deegan]

Which files in SCons are you referring to?
Possibly stick some logic in the test framework to find the "Home" of the
docbook stylesheets?


On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:06 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

>
> Just tossing this out here in case anybody has any ideas.  It's not a
> big thing, but has led to a bunch of test skips on my own systems, which
> don't run Ubuntu, ever since I've been running tests, and every now and
> then it irritates me enough to give it a bit of a thought.
>
> A subset of the docbook tests use xsl:import to bring in stylesheets.
> But the paths to them are hardcoded, and only correct for Ubuntu
> (probably inherited from Debian and shared with other relatives like
> Mint), not for other Linux distributions, and certainly not for Windows:
>
> basedir/htmlchunked/image/html.xsl:     <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/html/chunkfast.xsl"/>
>
> basedir/htmlhelp/image/htmlhelp.xsl:    <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl"/>
>
> basedir/slideshtml/image/slides.xsl:    <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/slides/html/plain.xsl"/>
>
> rootname/htmlchunked/image/html.xsl:    <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/html/chunkfast.xsl"/>
>
> rootname/htmlhelp/image/htmlhelp.xsl:   <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl"/>
>
> rootname/slideshtml/image/slides.xsl:   <xsl:import
>
> href="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/slides/html/plain.xsl"/>
>
>
>
> any thoughts on how one might make these more "portable" and not just
> tied to one particular filesystem layout?
>
>
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