[20312] in Athena Bugs
Re: fix for latex2html platform dependency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Apr 26 11:23:35 2002
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:23:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jamie Morris <jemorris@mit.edu>
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I'll bear this in mind, but latex2html is slated for an update and I'll
need to see if this fix still applies to future versions.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jamie Morris wrote:
>
> ~infoagents/share/latex2html/latex2html lines 156-157 are
>
> # Uncomment the following statement if your Linux system requires it.
> # use GDBM_File;
>
> and doing so lets it run peachy-keen on Linux (AFAICT) instead of hanging
> forever as it normally (AFAICT) does.
>
> OTOH uncommenting the line makes it fail outright on a Sun instead of
> running fine, for lack of the module.
>
> So I stuck
>
> eval { require GDBM_File; import GDBM_File };
>
> in my .latex2html-init and now get peachy-keenness for both platforms
> (I imagine for others too but haven't tried it).
>
> Sticking that into the actual latex2html script ought to increase the
> amount of peachy-keenness in the world. (Or maybe some nicer way of
> handling the conditional 'use' but whatever.)
>
>
> Jamie
>
