Re: Cygwin package of openjade?

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A few months ago Jon Foster and Markus Hoenicka popped over to the 
> cygwin-apps@cygwin.com mailing list with some packages for docbook 
> and openjade. I'd really like to see these included in the Cygwin internet 
> distribution, installable by Cygwin's setup.exe, since the Cygwin User's Guide 
> is built with docbook/openjade and right now developers have to cobble
> together the parts. 
> The site:
>
> http://www.toomanysecrets.net/~foster/cygwin/
>
> right now has a openjade-1.3.1-2 Cygwin package (among many others).
>
> What I'm wondering is, are you guys waiting on us to upload these, or
> are these not quite ready for prime time yet? 
> Thanks.
>
> Joshua Daniel Franklin
The last time I checked, there were some packaging issues.  If you will 
notice, he made tarballs with a "." in the path.  For some reason, setup 
can't handle this and ends up sticking the openjade binaries in the 
folder usr/bin [instead of sticking it in bin/].  Of course since 
/usr/bin is a virtual folder inside cygwin, the end result is that 
Cygwin will refuse to acknowledge the existance of the openjade 
binaries.  Otherwise, with some minor tweaking of teTeX and the addition 
of pdfjadetex/sgmlutils/sgmlutils-lite/docbook-utils, I was able to get 
a fairly decent docbook build environment set up.  Jon's email is 
bouncing, so I've had no way to contact him regarding this...

Cheers,
Nicholas