> On Set. 23, 2014, 12:53 a.m., Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > Re-reading the code and the comments, the core of the problem is described 
> > later, in another part which should be touched by the patch. The comment 
> > says:
> > 
> > # WARNING: this has severe limitations on the windows platform since the 
> > .xsl
> > # & docbook files need to be relocatable. We cannot just replace the paths 
> > in
> > # the .xsl with relative paths because these files are not installed while
> > # building kdoctools. Instead, we will reconfigure those files at install 
> > time
> > # with relative paths.
> > So is the limitation due to the fact that file(RELATIVE_PATH can't compute 
> > in advance the relative path with non-existing files as argument?
> 
> Patrick Spendrin wrote:
>     I think the issue was the following: when building kdelibs, kdoctools was 
> used to generate documentation for the stuff in kdelibs. For this to work, 
> there had to be a hardcoded path to the windows location of the docbook dtds 
> inside some of the dtds from kdoctools. When installing, you would take a 
> second copy of the configured file, and install that; this copy would have a 
> relative path in it.

Thanks, now I understand how it works. The double configuration of the file is 
needed then. Let's discard this.


- Luigi


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On Set. 23, 2014, 12:44 a.m., Luigi Toscano wrote:
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> (Updated Set. 23, 2014, 12:44 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Build System, KDE Frameworks and kdewin.
> 
> 
> Repository: kdoctools
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Unify most of the CMake code which generates the DTD instead of duplicating 
> the functionalities for WIN32 and non-WIN32 execution. The WIN32 branch only 
> needs to compute the relative path, the rest of the code can be shared.
> 
> If accepted, a similar patch can be applied to kdelibs4support.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   src/CMakeLists.txt 341ecf4 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120324/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Tested on a Linux-based based system only, needs input from Windows 
> developers.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luigi Toscano
> 
>

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