I installed latex2html 98.1, 98.1p1, and 98.2p6 on a solaris 2.6 machine.
I am now extremely good at creating non-functional installations and
install-test always runs without any problems.
To test, I did "make all" in the example directory. For every version of
latex2html, all the text from report.tex (and subsections) was removed.
Ironically, the image files were created properly, but were not linked.
Trying "latex2html -debug test.tex" where test.tex contained the following
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document}
created no files that contained the word "This" except for test/TMP/test
and test/TMP/part001.
I tried adding the -w to turn on warnings for Perl, but got too many
warnings to track down the problem. Many of the warnings require only
simple alterations to the code (@_[0] should be $_[0], dos should be 'dos')
and could easily be incorporated into the current release. Others raise
issues that only someone familiar with the code can easily resolve.
latex2html is sufficiently large that requiring development versions to
work with "use strict" and "-w" would probably help in the long run.
Thanks
Scott
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