[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Wed Oct 1 16:53:52 EDT 2003
Thomas Heller writes:
> Now that I can build the docs on starship (thanks, Greg!) it's not
> needed anymore to do it under Windows, but for the archives here are my
> experiences:
I appreciate your taking the time!
> Doing 'nmake pdf' (this is the MSVC6 make utility) in the src/Doc
> directory worked, it created the pdf docs with MikTeX I had
> installed. Maybe I had to trivially edit the Makefile (replace 'cp' with
> 'copy' and such) before.
Most of the "cp" commands were removed as mkhowto became more capable,
are were replaced by calls to shutil.copyfile(). There are still a
few "cp" commands in the Makefile, though, and the "clean" target and
friends still us "rm".
> It doesn't work anymore with the recent checkins to the Makefile it
> didn't work anymore, although installing the Mingw32 gnumake helped.
That's expected, since it now uses the GNU-ish $(shell ...) syntax to
call an external script from Doc/tools/. Removing this would require
even more painful gyrations to maintain the same functionality, or
would require that Python version numbers once more appear in the
documentation source tree.
> Then I tried to bring 'make html' to work, installed latex2html (I have
> Perl already), but this always complained about pnmtopng missing (or
> something like that). And the make failed with an error such as 'image
> format unsupported'. Well, I tried to find and install native windows
> pnm2png and png2pnm tools, had to replace incompatible zlib.dll and so
> on. It didn't work, instead it broke my ssh and maybe other stuff.
That's painful. netpbm is a documented requirement for LaTeX2HTML,
but is a pain. I had to install that from source under Cygwin.
> At this point I gave up, removed the software, and be happy that I
> managed to get my ssh working again.
That certainly sounds like a pain. I'll think about what I can do to
make it easier, but I don't think it can take a high priority. I'm
glad you got it working on Starship.
-Fred
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