"steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My big interest is that I would like to begin looking
> at porting these tools to win32 for LyX (win32).
I have briefly looked into the sgmltools package. It seems to
me, the only thing which prevents the portability to non-UNIX
systems is autoconf generated configure scripts, which (GNU
autoconf) is, in principle, developped to prevent softwares to
be ported to unsupported system.
When the version of autoconf was 1.2, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll
wrote a patch for autoconf to support the compile/link/install
of applications written in C/C++ on OS/2 and submitted it to
the FSF. The FSF rejected a patch on the ground that OS/2 is
not a supported system and snapped his code to write MS Windows
support in autoconf 1.3, since MS and its operating systems are
always supported by the FSF.
Hung-Chi Chu had to rewrote an OS/2 support patch for autoconf 1.3
Now the false assumptions in the autoconf generated configure
are almost rectified with respect to compiling C/C++ code, while
they are left uncorrected in the field of generating scripts
files suitable for the local settings on non-UNIX systems for
python and other interpreter languages. Efforts must be directed
toward this area.
If you want to use sgmltools quick, just edit sgmltools.in and other
*.in files manually.
Regards,
SMiyata
