On 9/25/18 8:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 09/25/2018 11:42 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: >> A quick look at vala-0.42.0 shows that graphviz is only recommended, >> and an explanation for the sed is still present. But the sed is not >> visible in the rendered book. >> >> Experimentation shows that reinstating the sed, with each absolute >> line number increased by 7, does the job. (And people wonder why I >> hate seds with absolute line numbers when a patch should just apply). >> >> But checking the XML I see that Douglas changed graphviz to >> Recommended and commented out the sed. Since building the system >> gets bigger and bigger with every change, I would prefer to not have >> to build graphviz, and therefore to reinstate the sed as an option. > > When I was last doing development work, the documentation produced by doxygen > was important, That app uses graphvix to incorporate grapical versions of > the code hierarchical structure. > > I'm not sure how vala incorporates graphviz or what its purpose is, but I > agree that avoiding it and it's numerous dependencies is a good thing in > general.
While I agree that vala should not require graphviz, I just want to point out that graphviz can be built (and be useful) without any other dependencies than what is already in LFS (see the dependency section on the graphviz page). Regards Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
