Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> I just realized, it's not good that the docbook-xsl version number is
> hardcoded here.  This will break the next time docbook-xsl is updated.
>
> Does anyone know how to improve this?
>
> The relevant bit in the package Makefile that is being modified is this:
>
> DOCBOOK2XMAN=xsltproc --param man.authors.section.enabled 0 /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/manpages/docbook.xsl
>
> Can we modify this command to avoid giving the full pathname?  Or should
> we modify our docbook-xsl package to add a symlink that allows us to
> omit the version number?
>
>       Mark

I just hacked up the following; not sure if it's OK:

(let* ((docbook-xsl (assoc-ref inputs "docbook-xsl"))
       (files (find-files docbook-xsl "^docbook\\.xsl$")))
  (find (lambda (file)
          (string-match "/manpages/docbook\\.xsl$" file))
        files))

Updated patch: