[sane-devel] broken link in html document of xsane

[Masatake YAMATO]

Hi,

> These links are very old and AFAIK have never worked.
> I planned to make the backend authors to write a html document for their 
> backends, but if I remeber right this has never happened.
> Looks like you are the first one who tested this within the last 5 or 10 
> years ;)

So this is the good chance to change the situation, isn't it?

> When sane-backends installs html documents for the backends
> then I will update the links.

Could you tell me more?

As far as reading sane-backends/doc/Makefile.in, following patch for
backends/docs/Makefile.in satisfies you:

--- Makefile.in	06  6$B7n(B 2006 03:45:23 +0900	1.90
+++ Makefile.in	28  1$B7n(B 2007 16:14:30 +0900	
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 .PHONY: all clean depend dist distclean html html-man install \
   sane-html uninstall
 
-all: $(STANDARD) $(MANPAGES) html-pages
+all: $(STANDARD) $(MANPAGES) html
 
 %.1 %.5 %.7 %.8: %.man
 	@sed -e 's|@DATADIR@|$(datadir)|g' \
@@ -161,7 +161,11 @@
 	@-for doc in $(DOCS) $(HTML_PAGES); do \
 	    echo installing $${doc} in $(docdir)/$${doc}...; \
 	    $(INSTALL_DATA) $${doc} $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$${doc}; \
-	  done
+	done
+	@-for page in $(MANPAGES); do \
+	  echo "installing $${page}.html in $(docdir)/$${page}.html..."; \
+	  $(INSTALL_DATA) $${page}.html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$${page}.html; \
+	done
 
 uninstall:
 	@for page in $(SECT1); do \

Masatake YAMATO