[Quantlib-dev] Compile Docs on RH 8.0

[Liguo S. <Lig...@va...>]

When trying to build the doc rpm package, I encountered a problem on the docs-ps 
stage. After some investigation, I learned that it is due to the secure mode of 
dvips that Redhat configured. In this mode, if no option is given, the output of 
dvips will go to a printer and it is not allowed. Please read the following 
discussion for details:

http://www.mail-archive.com/te...@in.../msg01782.html
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=717663&group_id=23164&atid=377580

One solution to avoid this problem is to invoke dvips with "-o file.ps". This 
redirect the output to the stdin, and we can redirect it to the postscript file. 
For example in the Docs/latex directory, /usr/bin/dvips -o refman.ps refman.

This is causing the problem of building docs on RH8.0, and I don't know about 
RH9. I will test later.

Should we use this in our make files? If so, can anyone commit this change?

Thanks.


Liguo (Leo)