Re: [Plplot-devel] Documentation configure speed problem resolved.

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:14, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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!

Is this the only issue? From what I understand, if one supplies to configure a 
catalog focused on the needed DTDs, the search will be faster; if by contrary 
the catalog has many entries and the required ones are at the end, the search 
will be slower. I'm right?

Joao

> 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