[cl-typesetting-devel] Versions etc. for Graphviz for cl-typegraph?

[Marc Battyani]

"Jeff Caldwell" wrote:

>I used subversion (svn) and retrieved the latest cl-pdf and cl-typesetting.
>On my Debian machine, "apt-get install graphviz" resulted in version 2.2.
The
>'rank=' line written by gen-graph-dot-data in graph.lisp, called by
>(full-example), caused "dot" to have a segmentation violation, preventing
the
>generation of ex.pdf.
>
>I removed graphviz using apt-get. From the graphviz website, I downloaded
the
>source for v2.4. I couldn't make it because I didn't have some Xaw header
>files, e.g. Text.h and AsciiText.h. The configure process had detected that
>Xaw was not installed, so that looks like a graphviz config bug. Using
>dselect, I chose libxaw7 and downloaded and installed 598Mb of archives,
>which installed properly, more or less. (OK, I was out of date. :)
>
>After another ./configure of graphviz, it almost compiled. I had to ln -s
>/usr/lib/libperl.so.5 /usr/lib/libperl.so and then graphviz built cleanly.
>
>Now (full-example) works OK.
>
>That's OK for my development machine but not for an X-less server machine.
>Before I dive into trying to make this work on headless remote servers, can
>you offer any suggestions? What versions/configuration options of graphviz
>etc. seem to work?

Have you found something ? I don't see why dot needs X libraries. Maybe to
get some font metrics ? In that case maybe you could remove the code that
uses this from dot as the text handling is done by cl-typesetting.

Let's rewrite dot in Lisp! ;-)

Marc