Re: There is an update to gl2ps available

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/02/2012 05:39 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > On 09/02/2012 02:31 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
[snip]
> > > The LIB_SUFFIX change made me wonder if gl2ps is now available via the various 
> > > package managers.  I checked Fink and MacPorts on MacOSX.  It is not yet 
> > > available for Fink (although that should be easy to do).  It is available from 
> > > MacPorts.  I did a quick Google, it appears to be available for Debian.  Might 
> > > we soon want to unbundle gl2ps and make it a dependency?
> >
> > There's no build script for gl2ps.  Is it bundled as a lib-file?  Or as C that 
> > must be included somehow?
> >
> > Dan
>
> cmake is used to create the Makefile.  I'm not familiar with the process, but 
> it looks to me as if CMakeLists.txt is analogous to configure.ac.  To build and 
> install ...
>
>         cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
>         make
>         make install

Well, that's easy enough.  It creates library libgl2ps.so.  I looked in 
the Fedora 14 repository, and libgl2ps.so is present, version 1.3.5.

To me it would make sense that gl2ps be a dependency, but I think 
waiting until more significant changes occur in gl2ps and after the next 
Octave stable release would be best.  I suspect there will be a lot of 
outside compilations, and throwing in another dependency that may not be 
well supported could frustrate inpatient users eager for the next release.

Sounds like a good TODO list item and project for next summer.

Dan