Re: y scaling error

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 05 November 2007 07:54, pl...@pi... wrote:
> > 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?

Gentoo bug:
	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194216 
Gnuplot report:
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1822610&group_id=2055&atid=102055

You obviously don't really care about gnuplot.texi.
I suggest you just do:
	touch .../docs/gnuplot.texi
after that the make system should ignore it.  In fact, now that I
think about it, that's probably why you are just noticing the problem now.
Because I applied that gentoo patch, one of the dependencies in the source
tree is now newer than gnuplot.texi.  So "make" is trying to rebuild it
even though nothing has really changed.  Just do the "touch" and forget it.

> > 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

You are still confusing TeX  (tetex) and gnu info.
Gnu info is only large because of emacs.  I find both info and emacs
unusable, but I keep emacs installed on one machine so that I can 
regenerate gnuplot.texi from time to time :-)

But the really huge package is TeX (tetex), which is something else
altogether.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt