On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:30, Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:53:01AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > I don't understand what the fuss is all about. It takes 11m1s to build
> > all the binaries and documentation of all GNU Radio 2.6 modules supported
> > by the NetBSD packages sytem from scratch on my laptop. The time it takes
> > to generate the gnuradio-core documentation is 1m21s which is merely 10%
> > of the total time taken to rebuild GNU Radio.
> >
> > What are these people running? Sinclair Pocket PCs?  :-)
> >
> > NetBSD uses a later version of doxygen namely doxygen-1.4.5. It supports
> > many new features, has seen many bugfixes and hence creates a different
> > set of doc files. Perhaps its faster too... ;-)
>
> Some version's of doxygen in wide circulation are *really* slow.
> Also, do you have dot installed?  If so, additional time is spent
> generating graphs.  On my opteron, it takes over 7 minutes to generate the
> docs with doxygen 1.4.1 and dot 2.2.

Yes, dot is part of graphviz-2.2.1 producing the hierarchical plots. If the 
old versions are that bad wouldn't it make sense to specify doxygen-1.4.5 and 
graphviz-2.2.1 or later?

> > How about a --enable-build-docs configure switch to enable users to make
> > that decision at the configuration stage?
>
> A patch to configure.ac would be welcome!
>
> Eric

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