[Scons-dev] Problem using doc toolchain?

[William Blevins]

Can you add that information to
https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation ?

V/R,
William

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> O.k. Good.
> It looks like the source of the bogus XML's was using lxml and not using
> libxml2/libxslt.
> Perhaps we should remove that as an option?
> (even if only until someone is able to figure out why it's generating bad
> output?)
>
> Here's my blog post on building this all from scratch on ubuntu.
>
>
> http://baddogconsulting.com/building-python-with-libxml2-and-libxslt-on-ubuntu-1404-from-source.html
>
> (Need for scratch was driven by the fact that debian and there for ubuntu
> strip the windows installer stubs from their python distributions)
> -Bill
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
>> All those look OK to me, Bill -- hmm, good thing I don't use swear words
>> in my scons source dir names!  I wasn't expecting to see those in the doc!
>> :-)
>> There's no tool to check; you have to review by hand.  Usually the diffs
>> are short like this.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Did a clean python, libxml2-2.9.2, libxslt-1.28 from source (ran into an
>>> issue with libpython.so from system python causing core dump with got me
>>> stuck for a while because the error you get until you dig into it just
>>> indicates that expat was not built with your python.. blog posting to
>>> follow on that fun).
>>>
>>> Once I sorted expat issue, and run
>>> /home/bdbaddog/tools/python-2.7.10/bin/python
>>> bin/docs-update-generated.py
>>> /home/bdbaddog/tools/python-2.7.10/bin/python bin/docs-validate.py
>>> /home/bdbaddog/tools/python-2.7.10/bin/python
>>> bin/docs-create-example-outputs.py
>>>
>>> I get only the following diffs:
>>> M doc/generated/examples/caching_ex-random_1.xml
>>>    http://pastebin.com/UwE75eTY
>>> M doc/generated/examples/troubleshoot_explain1_3.xml
>>>   http://pastebin.com/3n2f3e4y
>>> M doc/generated/variables.gen
>>>   http://pastebin.com/UnhexDVR
>>> M doc/generated/variables.mod
>>>    http://pastebin.com/E1nXYupB
>>>
>>> Are these all valid?
>>> Is there an easy way to check them (aka a tool?)
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:11 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dirk,
>>>>
>>>> I had lxslt installed but not python-lxslt.  Once that was installed it
>>>> was obvious that it switched from lxml to lxml2 usage.  I still got another
>>>> error.
>>>> On Jul 31, 2015 3:18 AM, "Dirk Bächle" <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bill,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30.07.2015 17:36, Bill Deegan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  From the code I've looked at if you have libxml2 & libxslt that is
>>>>>> preferred, and then if not it will use lxml.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> your assumption is correct, this is done because libxml2 is faster in
>>>>> general.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that libxml2 and pure lxml have different behaviour regarding
>>>>> "normalizing namespaces" and that's where the diff comes from. This makes
>>>>> at least the validation in the SernaFree XML editor choke for the lxml
>>>>> output...:(
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm investigating this a little further and will try to find a way
>>>>> around this. I'd really like to have the (almost) same output for both XML
>>>>> toolchains, such that it gets accepted by most XML editors out there.
>>>>>
>>>>> @William: You said that after installing an additional package the
>>>>> processing got faster and correct? My guess would be that you now have a
>>>>> lxml distro/package that relies on libxml2 under the hood. This makes the
>>>>> error go away of course...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll keep you posted, best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dirk
>>>>>
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>> Gary
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