[PATCH] Fixes meinproc/docbook can't handle paths with spaces (was: Re: meinproc/docbook can't handle paths with spaces ?)

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Dec 20 21:42:24 GMT 2007


On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > FWIW, below you'll find the function that parses the result of
> > > getenv("SGML_CATALOG_FILES"). The code is pretty straightforward
> > > and it's obvious that nobody thought about spaces in a catalog's
> > > path.
> >
> > Can you file a bug report for libxml ?
>
> Instead of doing this I have converted the SGML catalogs in kdoctools to
> XML catalogs and made meinproc write the catalog paths (encoded as file
> URLs) to the environment variable XML_CATALOG_FILES.
>
> Now kdelibs builds even if the source dir contains spaces.
>
> Is it okay to commit this patch and to svn add the new XML catalogs (see
> attached tar ball)?

I can't comment on that.
IMO it is a bug fix, not a feature.

Alex




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