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Re: Trial plotutils packages again


--- Charles Wilson  wrote:

> 
> Showstopper: the DLL packages are not bzip'ed, but they are named as if 
> they are.  Once this is fixed, GTG.
> 
Arrg.  Sorry.  Will fix shortly.

> 
> However, this one is missing a few docs (NOT a showstopper; just note 
> for the next release)
> 
> +usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/COMPAT
> +usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/KNOWN_BUGS
> +usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/PROBLEMS
> 
I'll check on it.

> This is to be expected, as you configured using --disable-static.  It's 
> your decision of course, but why the omission? (NOT a showstopper)
> 
I just haven't been incorporating static libs into packages that build dlls.  I
suppose they would provide additional flexibility for a developer, but it
subverts the purpose for providing/using dlls.

> Boy, after claiming to be an autotools novice you certainly weren't 
> content to take my patches and run! <g>  I am a little confused, tho: I 
> found that with autoconf-2.59, I got too many warnings when 
> re-autotooling unless I made the extensive changes you saw in my patch. 
>   Your patch to the two configure.in's is much simpler: are you using an 
> older, less stringent autoconf, or are you just ignoring the warnings? 
> (NOT a showstopper)
> 
My initial attempts to use your patch were unsuccessful.  In my search for a
successful approach, I picked up some patches from debian unstable, and
combined them with yours.  I wouldn't claim though that the extra patches
solved the problem.  I think what actually solved it was working through the
re-autotooling in a particular order, and forcing the use of the latest tools. 
For some reason, automake kept wanting to use an older version, which errored
out.  Eventually, after forcing a more recent version, it started working, and
I lost motivation to try to identify the exact issue involved.  I think I tried
to send an e-mail describing this issue I had with the patch, but it appears
that web-mail garbled it.

> NOT a showstopper, but next time pls remove the URL; once packages have 
> been adopted I delete them from the server so that link will be dead soon.
> 

OK


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