Re: [Plplot-cvs] CVS update notice (plplot/bindings/octave)

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Thursday 13 March 2003 19:54, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot/bindings/octave
> In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv24857/bindings/octave
>
> Modified Files:
> 	Makefile.am
> Log Message:
>
> Implemented the check of programs and Perl modules necessary to build the
> files in bindings/octave/plplot_octave_txt/.  The extension of the present
> change is quite large, because the previous situations was quite
> constraining.  Indeed, the checks for Perl modules were buried in
> bindings/octave/configure.ac, which was included in configure.ac
> conditionally on enable_docbook.
>
> To make the idea work, I had to split bindings/octave/configure.ac

you mean doc/docbook/configure.ac, right? This can be misleading.

> into two
> parts: the first one consisted of macro definitons, configure options
> declarations and things alike, that can (and sometimes must) run
> inconditionally.  This material has been moved into a new file called
> bindings/octave/docbook.m4

the same?

> (BTW, having two configure.ac in the source tree
> was an aberration).
>
> The second part consisted of the actual checks (for programs, DTDs, and
> Perl modules), which should be run conditioanlly.  This material has been
> inserted into configure.ac.
>
> The specific tests for the Octave bindings regard the program Perl, and the
> Perl modules XML::DOM and XML::Parser, which are used by api2text.pl to
> build the text documentation files.  If the tests go okay, api2text.pl is
> called in bindings/octave/Makefile.am, if needed.  Otherwise, thanks to the
> new AM_CONDITIONAL has_xml_pm, if recompilation of the *.txt files is
> needed, then the make and shows the error message:

There is no need to stop the make. The only consequence is that plplot_octave 
will not have the original PLplot API help text; instead, a one line 
description is searched in plplot.doc, and if even one is not found a "no 
help available" message is used.

>
>     Perl modules not available: cannot generate plplot_octave_txt/*.txt
>
> This has been tested in trivial cases, but must still be made bullet-proof.
>
>
>
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