[l2h] LaTeX2HTML errors and patches
Collin Starkweather
collin.starkweather@colorado.edu
Mon, 28 May 2001 12:17:38 -0600
Forgive me if all of the following information is already common
knowledge, but I just now downloaded and installed LaTeX2HTML and
subscribed to the mailing list.
I am using LaTeX2HTML with the version given by
$Id: latex2html,v 1.98 1999/04/01 10:58:10 RRM Exp $
and Perl version 5.6.0 (the results of perl -V are below my sig in case
anyone's interested).
I got errors in both the latex2html and html3_2.pl executables. The
errors were due to undef and rmdir being called with an argument list,
whereas perldoc -f undef says
Note that this is a unary operator, not a list operator.
and perldoc -f rmdir says
rmdir FILENAME
That is, rmdir does not take a list as an argument.
I corrected both problems and included the diffs below as well.
I hope this is helpful. Who is maintaining the code base these days? I
couldn't find it on SourceForge, so I'd like to suggest registering the
project there. I use it for other open source projects, and it is a
fantastic tool.
I'd also like to ask whether anyone has considered bundling it as a CPAN
distribution? I'm a CPAN author, and I can tell you from experience,
enabling someone to do an install with a single command
perl -MCPAN -e "install LaTeX::HTML"
is the easiest way to make your distribution available to the masses
with the least muss and fuss.
After I got it working, it is performing flawlessly! Thanks to all
whose work is making my life easier!
-Me
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Collin Starkweather (303) 402-9408
Consulting Software Architect http://www.collinstarkweather.com
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ERROR MESSAGES FROM THE DISTRIBUTION CODE
=========================================
(Note that the diffs that fix the errors are below.)
What? latex2html peep-proposal.tex
Too many arguments for undef operator at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
2771, near "$trans)"
Too many arguments for undef operator at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
3076, near "$etmp)"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/bin/latex2html line 4404.
What? popd
popd: Directory stack empty.
What? latex2html peep-proposal.tex
Too many arguments for undef operator at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
2771, near "$trans)"
Too many arguments for undef operator at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
3076, near "$etmp)"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/bin/latex2html line 4404.
What? latex2html peep-proposal.tex
Too many arguments for rmdir at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 8905,
near "$print_dir) "
Too many arguments for undef operator at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
11315, near "$captions)"
Execution of /usr/local/bin/latex2html aborted due to compilation errors.
What? latex2html peep-proposal.tex
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 99.1 release (March 30, 1999)
by Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds.
Revised and extended by:
Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan and others
...producing markup for HTML version 3.2
Too many arguments for undef operator at
/usr/local/latex2html/versions/html3_2.pl line 804, near "$endspec)"
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 14966.
What?
DIFF OF FIXED latex2html EXECUTABLE AND THE DISTRIBUTION EXECUTABLE
===================================================================
[root@morgenstern latex2html]# diff latex2html.dist latex2html
2771c2771,2772
< undef($cmd,$trans);
---
> undef($cmd);
> undef($trans);
3076c3077,3079
< undef ($cmd,$tmp,$etmp);
---
> undef ($cmd);
> undef ($tmp);
> undef ($etmp);
8902c8905,8906
< rmdir($this_dir,$print_dir) if $mode;
---
> rmdir($this_dir) if $mode;
> rmdir($print_dir) if $mode;
11312c11316,11317
< undef($contents, $captions);
---
> undef($contents);
> undef($captions);
DIFF OF FIXED html3_2.pl EXECUTABLE AND THE DISTRIBUTION EXECUTABLE
===================================================================
[root@morgenstern versions]# diff html3_2.pl html3_2.pl.dist
804,806c804
< undef ($cmd); undef @cmds;
< undef ($tmp);
< undef ($endspec);
---
> undef ($cmd,$tmp,$endspec); undef @cmds;
RESULTS OF perl -V
==================
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2
09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Dcc=gcc
-Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr
-Darchname=i386-linux -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Di_ndbm
-Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Uuselargefiles'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', optimize='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686', gccversion=2.96
20000731 (experimental)
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=4
alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
libc=/lib/libc-2.1.92.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options:
Built under linux
Compiled at Aug 7 2000 10:59:51
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
.