re: FSF directory

[P.C.J.G. Brunier]

Hi John,

Weaks are recommended but not needed to run the program.
While configuring I had the possibility to run it with
--without-libplot

I think it is a weak prerequisit.
Gmp and gsl are really needed.

Patrick

John Darrington wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:18:35AM +0100, P.C.J.G. Brunier wrote:
>     Hi,
>          I will post a change to the directory maintainers.
>          Weak prerequisites:
>     libplot
>     Build preequisites:
>     GNU gmp, libgsl
>          Is this right? This is what I experienced while compiling PSPP.
>    
> I'm not sure what the difference between a `weak' and a `build'
> prerequisite is.  They all need to be present at build time, and if
> dynamically linked at run time too.
> >
> J'
>