[Plplot-devel] Documentation configure speed problem resolved.

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

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

> 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.

Rafael and I finally found the cause of this problem.  Upgrading the sgml
tools installed on my machine increased my docbook configuration speed by
literally a factor of 30! So once the rest of you are starting to try
documentation builds, be careful of this tool version issue.  I will
eventually document in README.developers the minimum recommended versions of
everything.

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 software
package (plplot.org).

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