[Plplot-devel] My progress on our CBS for today

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Today I discovered and fixed a large number of dependency issues with the
documentation build.  The worst of these was a real dependency of the
plplot-symbols.txt build on libplplot which was being completely ignored in
doc/docbook/src/CMakeLists.txt. The final issue I discovered was causing
pdfjadetex and jadetex to be unnecessarily run when I re-ran the make
command.  That was greatly slowing down my work on one of the issues
blocking release, and I completely solved the issue by replacing the old
method (which was based on dependencies) by a shell-based method closely
related to that used in our ABS to solve the same issue of deciding how many
times to run pdfjadetex and jadetex.  Normally, shell-based commands should
not be used for CMake because of potential cross-platform issues, but in
this case we are only allowing building the documentation on Linux so we are
free to use the power of the shell.

I have done a number of elementary tests of the documentation build and all
appears well now.  With these side issue now resolved, I should be able to
get back to working on the two remaining issues which are blocking release.
Sorry, Hazen, on the large delay in creating the promised solution of one of
those blockers, the Tcl/Tk build errors for Mac OS X.  I should have
something for you to test tomorrow (Tuesday).

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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