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

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-03-09 10:49]:

> 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.

Which system are you using?  In my Debian workstation (Pentium III, 930
MHz), the time spent between the first and the last of these output lines of
configure --enable-docbook:

    checking DSSSL Style Sheet DTD... found
    checking DocBook HTML Stylesheet... found
    checking DocBook Print Stylesheet... found
    checking DocBook DTD... found
    checking for makeinfo... found
    checking XML::DOM... yes
    checking XML::Parser::PerlSAX... yes
    checking XML::Writer... yes
    
is only 6 seconds (seconds, not minutes).  I obtain this figure consistently
in successive runs.  Something must be terribly wrong with your system,
unless you are talking about _build_ time, not _configure_ time.

> There has got to be a better way.

Buy a better computer? :-)

-- 
Rafael