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

[Valerij P. <vp...@ir...>]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 13:24, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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
> > (version 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
> > reported. 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 fi=
le
> > to the needed place. I think the requerement of the additional xml stuff
> > (like 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 docume=
nt
> it all although the problem should get smaller as each distribution striv=
es
> toward LSB compliance.
>
> Was this the only change you had to make to build the documentation on
> Sisyphus?=20
Yes it was. But I don't like this method. Is it possible to change the=20
configure script a little or I just have to add rigth path the perl's path=
=20
variable?
> 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
> and 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
> or 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 A=
PI
> additions are made, I will bring out a new release of yplot.
These examples are really cool, I looked them with python.

Do you know that AbSoft fortran is now=20
shipped with plplot?=20
My congratulations to plplot team

rgds,
v