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Re: gl2ps
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: gl2ps |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:06:49 -0500 |
On Dec 31, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 01:24 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 15-Dec-2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>>
>> | On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:45:21 -0500
>> | "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden> wrote:
>> |> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
>> |> purposes. I do not consider them to be Octave releases. If people
>> |> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
>> |> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
>> |>
>> |> I plan to release Octave 3.6.0 in the next few weeks. Even if you
>> |> have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial archive, it
>> |> would help if you could build from the snapshot and report any
>> |> problems.
>> |
>> | Builds fine in Fedora, which shouldn't be surprising since AFAIK you're
>> | running on Fedora.
>>
>> No, Debian.
>>
>> | I did note a couple of things with rpmlint:
>> |
>> | octave-debuginfo.x86_64: W:
>> | spurious-executable-perm
>> /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/liboctave/singleton-cleanup.h
>> | octave-debuginfo.x86_64: E:
>> | incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/src/gl2ps.h
>> | octave-debuginfo.x86_64: W:
>> | spurious-executable-perm
>> /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/liboctave/oct-locbuf.h
>> | octave-debuginfo.x86_64: E:
>> | incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/src/gl2ps.c
>>
>> I fixed the file permissions.
>>
>> We just import the gl2ps.c and gl2ps.h files from the gl2ps project,
>> so I think the right place to fix that is in their sources. Could
>> someone please do that? http://geuz.org/gl2ps/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> jwe
>
> If this is an external project we should be linking to the system provided
> version instead of bundling it.
As far as I know, system versions of gl2ps don't exist. Which (if I recall
correctly ?) is why it was decided we'd bundle it.
Ben
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, (continued)
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, John W. Eaton, 2011/12/15
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Doug Stewart, 2011/12/15
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Doug Stewart, 2011/12/15
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Doug Stewart, 2011/12/15
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2011/12/15
- Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Doug Stewart, 2011/12/15
Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Jussi Lehtola, 2011/12/15
Re: fixes for gl2ps ?, Ben Abbott, 2011/12/31
Re: fixes for gl2ps ?, Orion Poplawski, 2011/12/31
Re: fixes for gl2ps ?, Ben Abbott, 2011/12/31
Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2011/12/15
Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp, marco atzeri, 2011/12/16
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