Re: y scaling error

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:58:45 +0100, Ethan A Merritt  
<merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Monday 05 November 2007 01:12, pl...@pi... wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunatley I can't check out current cvs because it fails to build
>> without doc
>>
>>
>>    529  ./prepare
>>    530  ./configure --without-tutorial
>>    531  make
>>    532  make install
>
> --without-tutorial has nothing to do with gnuplot.texi
> It is for of the gnu info system, not the TeX documentation.
>
>
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/svn/gnuplot/src'
>> Making install in docs
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/svn/gnuplot/docs'
>> ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot.gih
>> /usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/gnuplot.gih
>> Creating texinfo
>> Symbol's value as variable is void: load
>> make[1]: *** [gnuplot.texi] Error 255
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/svn/gnuplot/docs'
>> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> bash-3.2#
>
> What version of Emacs is it trying to use?
>

emacs-22.1-r1
on Gentoo ~x86

> I applied a patch last week that supposedly accommodated
> more recent versions of Xemacs.  It worked for me here,
> but I suppose it could be the culprit.
> Try reverting this change:

What does that bug no. refer to? Where's the patch?

>
> 2007-10-30  Christian Faulhammer (v-...@us...)
>         * docs/doc2texi.el: Gentoo patch to allow for changed handling of
>         newlines in up-coming version of XEmacs. Needed in order to
>         regenerate gnuplot.texi on such a system.
>         Bug #1822610
>
> I am convinced that the texinfo system is far more trouble
> than it is worth.

I'll second that ;)

> Perhaps it should be removed from the
> default build.  We distribute a copy of gnuplot.texi anyway,
> so there's not normally a need for the user to rebuild it.
>

It's also a huge dep. pkg IRCC it's about an order of magnitude bigger  
than gnuplot!
I had some trouble compiling tetex which was needed for gnuplot and had to  
do some digging to avoid it. If it can be taken out of default it seems  
like a good move.

Wasn't there another option like --without-doc that I don't seem to see  
any more?


Thanks, Peter.