Re: commit: Most of the code for the GtkMathView plugin.

Le mardi 25 janvier 2005 à 11:47 +0100, Luca Padovani a écrit :
> Hi Martin, Jean,
>
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:37 +0100, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > > ./configure --prefix=******* --disable-boxml --disable-gmetadom
> > > --disable-libxml2-reader --disable-custom-reader --enable-pipe
> >
> > Are all these flags mandatory?
>
> Short answer: no, they are not.
>
> Explanation: gtkmathview comes with 4 different frontends depending on
> which XML method one wants to use for reading the source MathML
> documents. The methods are:
> - use libxml2, building the XML tree (method used by AbiWord)
> - use libxml2, just reading the XML stream
> - use gmetadom, building the DOM tree
> - use a custom frontend (must be provided by the host application)
>
> Because of the heavy use of C++ templates in gtkamthview source code,
> the compilation of all these different frontends can take quite some
> time. During development and bug tracking this gets really annoying. So,
> all those --disable-* flags basically disable the frontends that are not
> used by AbiWord.
>
> The --enable-pipe flag enables a flag in GCC which makes it run slightly
> faster (you can save up to 2/3 minutes when compiling gtkmathview from
> scratch), but it's not mandatory.
>
> The --prefix=* flag is necessary if the default installation directory
> (/usr/local) is not what you want (or it is incompatible with the
> distribution's policies, like under Debian). AFAIK, it is rather common
> to have the --prefix flag specified in the package building scripts.
>
> In order to detect if the right frontend has been compiled (where
> "right" means the one AbiWord uses), one can do
>
> pkg-config mathview-libxml2 --cflags --libs
>
> In fact this is what happens in ac-helpers/abi-mathview.m4.
>
> As for including gtkmathview's source tree into AbiWord's, I hope this
> is not necessary nor useful (I did my best to make gtkmathview pluggable
> and configurable as much as possible :-) )
>
> Let me know if anything's not clear
>

Thanks a lo,t Luca. Things are quite clear for me now.

Cheers,
Jean
Received on Tue Jan 25 11:53:42 2005