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Re: ditaa --svg option is missing when building doc/src/sgml/images

Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> — 2025-12-19T15:39:33Z

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am working on writing a meson.build file for doc/src/sgml/images,
> but I ran into an issue when Meson tries to invoke `ditaa`:
>
> ...
>
> This issue also happens on autoconf builds:
>
> ...
>
> It appears that the --svg option was introduced in ditaa v0.11.0 [1],
> while Debian ships ditaa v0.10.x [2], which does not support this
> option.
>
> Additionally, doc/src/sgml/images/README mentions: Ditaa
> (http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/) but this website has an even older
> version, v0.9.*.
>
> If I am not missing anything, what do you think about updating this
> URL with the github URL [3]?
>
> [1] https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
> [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/ditaa

Nice archeology! I ran into this too when I was adding the images for
temporal PKs & FKs. It worked on a Mac with the brew ditaa, but not on
debian, until I installed it from github. Changing the link seems like
a good solution.

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Paul              ~{:-)
pj@illuminatedcomputing.com