[20706] in Athena Bugs
Re: latex2html in the infoagents locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Sep 12 11:35:15 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:35:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Stephen Gildea <gildea@MIT.EDU>
cc: Nick White <nickw@MIT.EDU>, <bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU>
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Actually, I've already solved all the path problems (no thanks to
configure, which I still think is ill-suited. People who use configure a
lot assume that when you set a --prefix, it means that binaries will be
installed under prefix/bin, libraries under prefix/lib, et cetera.
latex2html uses that configuration setting to do something else entirely,
apparently).
Eventually I moved files around and hand-edited one path in the main Perl
script and that was it for the files. However, the new latex2html doesn't
know about any graphics file formats, which is clearly wrong. What I am
going to have to do is swipe as many settings and paths as I can from the
old latex2html.configure file and move them to the new .pm-style config
library. Stay tuned. One problem is that I was not maintaining this locker
when that 1996 latex2html was put in, and I have no idea what special
lengths my predecessor may have gone to when installing it. But it
appears there were a few.
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> Thanks for the status; I'm glad to see this being worked on.
>
> To configure latex2html, try this for starters:
> ./configure --prefix=/mit/infoagents
>
> The new latex2html is backward compatible for documents, but if you have
> written .perl files that match LaTeX .sty files to provide HTML support
> for those styles, you may have to change your .perl file for the new
> latex2html.
>
