Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> I thought that problem was already addressed in a previous patch?  John,
> could this be another "gremlin"?  Or did I mis-understand the whole issue
> absolute path problem?

My understanding is that because sphinx switches the current working
directory during execution, this path must be absolute.  We could get
around this by processing a relative path internally in mpl at rc load
time, and converting it into an absolute path assuming the path is
relative to the directory containing the rc file.

JDH