On 2008-02-07 18:03+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi list, > > it is now possible to insert a tag in (all) the library names by > setting LIB_TAG at the cmake configuration stage, e.g. > > cmake -DLIB_TAG=debug ..
Could you please revert the change for now and do it after the release? I think your implementation will not introduce any nasty build-system bugs, but my instinct says we should have a longer testing period to make sure. Also, I think we need some additional discussion here of whether it is worthwhile to have a variety of LIB_TAG's. That does give us different name spaces for library names and device drivers so they can all coexist happily under the same installation prefix, but other components of the PLplot install will just get overwritten by each install with a separate LIB_TAG. I think Maurice is the only one that has practical experience with installs to the same prefix of single and double-precision versions of PLplot, but I am not sure whether he is still doing that or how extensive his testing has been of that situation. Of course, another completely safe alternative to changing LIB_TAG is simply to use differently named install prefixes for each different version of PLplot that you configure. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
