John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:59:17PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
[...] > The problem is that ???search-path-specification??? is meant for > $PATH-like > variables that list directories, not files. > > That occurred to me too. But what problems does it actually cause? That we can’t use it for $XML_CATALOG_FILES. > So I see two solutions: > > 1. Patch libxml2 so that it honors a new variable, say > $XML_CATALOG_DIRECTORIES, which would allow us to use > ???search-path-specification???. > > 2. Augment support for search paths to allow file-based search paths. > > (2) may be best in the long run, but it has ramifications in different > places. > > > (1) seems like a good idea only if upstream can be persuaded to adopt it. Which is unlikely, given that it’s redundant with $XML_CATALOG_FILES. > What are the ramifications of (2) ? There are changes in the build tools, for instance ‘search-path-as-list’ (used by ‘set-path-environment-variable’, used in gnu-build-system.scm) expects directories, not files. And all this calls things ‘directories’. This is a change we could schedule for the next core-updates. WDYT? Ludo’.
