Re: [Plplot-general] PLplot-5.2.0 has just been released!

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

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Joao Cardoso wrote:

> I enclose a step-by-step log of my last attempt. Basicaly I can't run
> bootstrap.sh, i.e., the autoconf step fails:
>
>    > ./bootstrap.sh
> 	configure.in:219: error: popdef: undefined macro: HTML
> 	configure.in:217: FILE_EXT is expanded from...
> 	configure.in:219: the top level
>
>    > aclocal
>    > automake --add-missing --gnu Makefile src/Makefile bin/Makefile
>    > autoconf
> 	configure.in:219: error: popdef: undefined macro: HTML
> 	configure.in:217: FILE_EXT is expanded from...
> 	configure.in:219: the top level
>
> Clearly my autotools versions are capable of running plplot's top level
> bootstrap.sh.

Thanks for this report, Joao.

Recall, I built the documentation with the mixed autotools version from
Debian and uploaded it to SF, and only switched to the pure latest versions
of autotools for the final tarball release (which does not build the
documentation, instead it just downloads it from SF).  Thus, the peculiar
release process for PLplot-5.2.0 did not actually test whether the pure
latest autotools will generate the documentation from the DocBook-XML
source.

Therefore, in light of your report I just tried that test, and I confirm the
error you have found. I will put fixing this autotools version issue on my
ToDo list for the next time I update the documentation.

I should emphasize for the PLplot users on this list, that this issue does
not affect ordinary users who can just download or view the generated
documentation (html, postscript, dvi, pdf, info, and man forms) from
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources/docbook-manual/.

Alan

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

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