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Re: Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Your patch doesn't apply cleanly. Try the below patches.
Ok, I realized that a couple hours after I posted the links, and corrected the
problem, but I guess you downloaded before I got that done. Just before I
posted the initial source package, I found that the index.htm file in the
documentation contained commercial advertising, so I edited it, to remove the
ads. But all the docs were using dos cr-lf formatting, rather than unix lf,
which for some reason makes patch barf, even though diff computes fine. I'm
sure there is an elegant way to solve that problem using diff, but I couldn't
find it. I fixed it by putting a d2u command in the unpack function in the
packaging script. Is there any problem with that solution?
> Some comments:
>
> o Development packages have devel in their names and not dev
OK. I accept your first patch, then.
> o Your README states that libswf could be used for SWF support.
> But configure checks for libming from
> o ming - http://ming.sourceforge.net/ -
Good catch. I was going by the docs at the web site, and was led astray. I'll
ask Dr. Glunz to update his docs. I guess your second patch takes care of
this.
> o I would also copy the java subdirectory (without the Makefile* files
> of course) to the pstoedit doc dir in the install phase. (This is not
> yet in my patch below)
OK.
>
> If you fix these, I think your package is GTG.
>
>
I'm thinking now that packaging plotutils/libplot and then configuring/linking
pstoedit against that would greatly expand the range of output formats
available from pstoedit. What would you think about deferring a pstoedit
package until I make a plotutils package available?
I've done a trial build of plotutils, and only issue I see is that it won't
build a shared library (libplot) on cygwin, even if it is told to do so during
configuration. It builds a static library fine, as far as I can tell.
Assuming I go with that instead of trying to fix the issue, that means libplot
will be a development library only, required at build time, but not at run time.