Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Ben Gamari <bga...@gm...> writes:

> That being said, I've tracked down the reason for the configuration in
> doc/matplotlibrc not being used. It seems that sphinx runs the examples
> in their current directory (I suppose this is to be expected).
>
> It seems that there is a (as far as I can tell undocumented, please fix
> this) MATPLOTLIBRC environment variable which can be used to override
> the location of the matplotlibrc used. This could be useful in
> specifying the matplotlibrc used during the documentation build process
> but unfortunately this would require an absolute path which, again,
> complicates the packaging (i.e. I don't know the best way to accomplish
> this). Suggestions?

I don't see why the path must be absolute, though I haven't tried. Is
there some problem having a different global matplotlibrc
$HOME/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc or $MATPLOTLIBDATA/matplotlibrc,
possibly setting $HOME or $MATPLOTLIBDATA from your build script?

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