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Re: gl2ps


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: 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






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