Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

[Sandro T. <mo...@de...>]

Hello John and Darren,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 22:05, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Sandro Tosi <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Well, what I'm actually asking is: can I use any matplotlibrc file (be
>> it from any location in the tarball or forged during build process) or
>> the one in doc/mpl_data has something specific to documentation that
>> needs to be preserved.
>
> In svn, doc/mpl_data is just a symlink to lib/matplotlib/mpl-data
>
>  http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/doc/mpl_data?view=markup
>
> Apparently symlinks are lost in building an sdist, and doc/mpl_data
> becomes a copy.  So in the actual src, the rc files are not just
> identical in the two locations, they are the same file.  It makes the
> most sense for the users to see in the docs the default rc file they
> are getting with your actual install.

Ah, now it's clear! I added a patch to just:

-    shutil.copy('mpl_data/matplotlibrc', '_static/matplotlibrc')
+    shutil.copy('../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc',
'_static/matplotlibrc')

And now the doc is built (but another problem, worth another thread, comes out).

Thanks & Cheers,
-- 
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