Re: bug in www program and makefile

Well, what do ya' now. It works!
Thanks Stefan. 

--- Stefan Große Pawig <pawig@hildesheim.sgh-net.de> wrote:
>   Hi Fox One!
> 
> Fox One <rockman66_1999@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > There seems to be a bug in libwww's `www' program
> > that prevents it from sending its output
> > to the correct file when it is invoked with
> > the `-o' option. For example, take this command:
> > 
> > www -w90 -na -p -to text/x-c HTAtom.html -o HTAtom.h
> > 
> > This command will only send the characters "/*" to
> > the file HTAtom.h; the rest of the data will go
> > to standard output. 
> > 
> > This causes problems for `libwww/Library/src/Makefile.am'
> [...]
> 
> There are actually two problems:
> 1. In spite of the -o option, the output goes to stdout (only a
>    comment start, /*, is placed in the output file).
> 2. When the browser encounters a TAB, it inserts a line break, thus
>    breaking lots of #define directives.
> 
> It turned out that the LineMode browser always uses the LMHText_new()
> function, which is used for interactive mode. It should use
> LMHText_new2() which work in interactive as well as in
> non-interactive
> mode (at least as far as is could see). This solves the first
> problem.
> 
> The second problem occurs due to missing tabstop information in the
> default style. I simply copied the tabs_8[] from DefaultStyles.c to
> GridText.c and linked it into the default style.
> 
> With these changes, the library can again be built with the help of a
> previously installed LineMode browser. As far as I can tell,
> operation
> in interactive mode is not affected.
> 
>   Regards,
>     Stefan
> 
> Index: libwww/LineMode/src/HTBrowse.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/public/libwww/LineMode/src/HTBrowse.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.183
> diff -r1.183 HTBrowse.c
> 1921c1921
> <     if (!HText_registerCDCallback (LMHText_new, LMHText_delete)) {
> ---
> >     if (!HText_registerCDCallback (LMHText_new2, LMHText_delete)) {
> 
> Index: libwww/LineMode/src/GridText.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/public/libwww/LineMode/src/GridText.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.50
> diff -r1.50 GridText.c
> 104a105,112
> > PRIVATE HTTabStop tabs_8[] = {
> >       { 0, 8 }, {0, 16}, {0, 24}, {0, 32}, {0, 40},
> >       { 0, 48 }, {0, 56}, {0, 64}, {0, 72}, {0, 80},
> >       { 0, 88 }, {0, 96}, {0, 104}, {0, 112}, {0, 120},
> >       { 0, 128 }, {0, 136}, {0, 144}, {0, 152}, {0, 160},
> >       {0, 168}, {0, 176},
> >       {0, 0 }         /* Terminate */
> > };
> 119c127
> <       0, 0, 0, HT_LEFT,               1, 0,   0, 
> ---
> >       0, 0, 0, HT_LEFT,               1, 0,   tabs_8, 
> 
> Index: libwww/LineMode/src/GridText.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/public/libwww/LineMode/src/GridText.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.16
> diff -r1.16 GridText.html
> 69a70,71
> > extern HText* LMHText_new2 (HTRequest * req,
> >               HTParentAnchor * anchor,HTStream * output_stream);
> 
> 
> -- 
> Veni, vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping
> 


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Received on Saturday, 8 July 2000 16:29:00 UTC