On 2012-10-25 18:46+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:24:48PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> Hi Andrew: >> >> One of my recent posts to PLplot-devel included a rudimentary but >> still useful CMake-based build system for ndiff. I have now (revision >> 12250) made that available in external/ndiff along with instructions >> on how to use it. I encourage you to expand that build system if you >> have additional needs (e.g., installation which should take basically >> 10 minutes to add). >> >> I often wondered why nobody packaged ndiff for Debian, but I suspect >> the problem is lack of installation relocatability for the current >> aged and bit-rotted build system. I think you get installation >> relocability automatically with the new CMake-based build system >> (using the DESTDIR variable in the make command) so if you happened to >> be interested in packaging ndiff for Debian, this CMake-based build >> system would be a useful first step toward that goal. > > Alan, > > As you may have noticed I've updated your work to properly install the > binary + man page, as well as linking against the gmp library properly if > that is detected.
Hi Andrew: Thanks for those useful additions. > I think a half decent implementation should still check > for the long double support as well implementing the tests. Agreed. I will take a look at both of those now since they would be useful in their own right for PLplot developers and also if you decide to package up the result for Debian. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
