Re: [Plplot-general] problems with making the docbook

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

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've build succefully rpms files for the plplot-5.2.0 for the ALTLinux
> Sisyphus distribution. Now there was no problem with building octave (ver=
sion
> 2.1.40) module and rpath problem as well.

Thanks for the good report.

>
> I have the similar problem with making docbook as   Jo=C3=A3o Cardoso rep=
orted.
> The configure script did not find DOM.pm
> which is provided by via perl-XML-Sablotron package. The problem was due =
to
> the fact that in Sisyphus this package is in
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/i386-linux/XML/Sablotron, so I copied the file=
 to
> the needed place. I think the requerement of the additional xml stuff (li=
ke
> XML-Sablotron) should be mentioned somewhere in readme.

The problem is that each distribution may do such things differently and
change from one version to the next.  Thus, it may be difficult to document
it all although the problem should get smaller as each distribution strives
toward LSB compliance.

Was this the only change you had to make to build the documentation on
Sisyphus?  If so, that is much simpler/easier than the modifications to RH
6.2 DocBook that had to be done to build the documentation way back when an=
d
gives me some hope that RH 7.3 (and SuSe?) will be easy as well.

>
> I rebuild the yplot with for new version. It works fine for me.

Thanks for that good report as well.  When time permits (probably a month o=
r
so from now) I will port the new PLplot API additions to yplot so you can
enjoy the updated examples 8 and 11 there as well. Once those yplot API
additions are made, I will bring out a new release of yplot.

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

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting softwar=
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package (plplot.org).

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