On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Vlad wrote: > Greetings, > > I appologize for the previous email with the wrong subject. > > It seems that package has been proposed couple of years ago, and was > rejected due to licence problems. > Here is the link : > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00348.html > > However several things happend since then. First the AT&T labs at cambrige is > no more, and the graphviz package is now developed by the graphviz.org. > Consequently the licence has changed from some weird proprietary AT&T code > agreement, to standard CPL licence which is an OSD approved licence. > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php > http://www.graphviz.org/License.php > > Official word from the developers is that the package doesn't come > compile right out of the box, but various people have reported success > in doing so after some tweaking. So if this package is approved I will > attempt to track down all the missing dependencies and create a patch > for this package to be build under cygwin.
I recall minimal tweaking in building this package. If you're interested, I can try to dig up the patch I used (for an older version, I suppose). > My primary goal is to buiild the dot program which is used by the > doxygen package to generate the source documentation. I will do my best > to get the other parts working as well. > > My plan is to use as much shared libraries ( libgd , libfreetype ) as > practical, and link the missing libraries statically. Sounds good. I was going to vote for it, but it's apparently part of Debian stable, so no need. I'll be glad to review it once you have the actual package, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT