Re: gl2ps

[Orion Poplawski]

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.

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