Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with SGML entity not defined

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

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Joao, could you please try a fresh checkout to see whether my recent commit
> will solve the parsing problem on your system?

Never mind.  It still isn't right.

>
> I found an error in the stanza in question.  Reference was made to
> plplotdoc.xml.in rather than the correct plplotdoc.xml.  The principal
> difference between the two is DOCTYPE (the key to finding system files
> required by sgml/xml applications and libraries) is configured so that
> plplotdoc.xml is the file where this is defined properly. The only way this
> could have worked before when using plplotdoc.xml.in for Debian is if there
> is a broad default set of entities defined when no DOCTYPE is specified. But
> I think it is much better to define the DOCTYPE like is done now.  If this
> is still incomplete (Rafael, would you check this please?), then I suggest
> the required DOCTYPE lines should be configured in plplotdoc.xml so that
> api2text.pl has a chance to work correctly on all systems.

Problem is that @DOCBOOK_DTD_PUBID@ is not defined and therefore the DOCTYPE
is not configured properly in plplotdoc.xml for the --disable-docbook case.
Rafael, can you fix this (or send me a patch to fix it if you still don't
have cvs access)?

What we want is something minimal that configures things sufficiently so
that api2text.pl works properly whether --enable-docbook or --disable-docbook.

Currently, the reason why most developers would want to avoid
--enable-docbook (even if it is straightforward to get the prerequisite
packages installed) is it currently takes something like 6 minutes on my
computer just to configure --enable-docbook.  Rafael, do you know why it is
so slow?  That's a ridiculous amount of computer time just to configure
something.  There has got to be a better way.

Alan
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Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
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