On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Dr K.M. Briggs wrote:
Installing GiNaC-0.5.4 on my redhat 6.0 system fails at the doc step:
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kbriggs/GiNaC-0.5.4/doc/tutorial' Running /usr/X11R6/bin/fig2dev -L eps -m 0.9 classhierarchy.fig classhierarchy.eps... Unknown graphics language eps Known languages are: acad box epic eepic eepicemu gif ibmgl jpeg latex mf pcx pic pictex png ppm ps pstex pstex_t textyl tiff tk tpic xbm xpm
I upgraded my transfig package to the latest from redhat 6.1 (Release 3.2 Patchlevel 1), but it has the same problem.
Actually, changing the command to fig2dev -L ps -m 0.9 classhierarchy.fig classhierarchy.eps gives a perfectly good tutorial.ps.
This isn't the newest version. Here is an except from the ChangeLog of upstream transfig 3.2 Patchlevel 3: : o -L eps is required for Encapsulated PostScript now, instead of fig2dev : just using the -P (add showpage) option to distinguish EPS from PS Sorry, but currently documentation is somewhat demanding on your environment. Bruno Haible has suggested to put everything into the distribution or put a tarball of it on FTP. As long as everything is available from www.ginac.de I don't know if it's worth bothering. What do others think?
Maybe the configure script should check whether the fig2dev version installed knows about eps?
Maybe this is feasible. Do you have a patch ready? I won't find the time to do it until 0.6... Regards -rbk. -- Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE> <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>