Re: gl2ps

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 31, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> On 12/31/2011 10:06 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> 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
> 
> It's in Fedora.  No idea about anything else.  It could at least be 
> configurable.
> 

Ok. I noticed it is available for MacPorts as well.

I'll file a bug report.

Ben