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Re: Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Cc: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
- Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:03:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42
- References: <20051007182222.23087.qmail@web31504.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>>>>> James R Phillips writes:
> --- "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Your patch doesn't apply cleanly. Try the below patches.
> Ok, I realized that a couple hours after I posted the links, and corrected the
> problem, but I guess you downloaded before I got that done. Just before I
> posted the initial source package, I found that the index.htm file in the
> documentation contained commercial advertising, so I edited it, to remove the
> ads. But all the docs were using dos cr-lf formatting, rather than unix lf,
> which for some reason makes patch barf, even though diff computes fine. I'm
> sure there is an elegant way to solve that problem using diff, but I couldn't
> find it. I fixed it by putting a d2u command in the unpack function in the
> packaging script. Is there any problem with that solution?
I don't think so, but I would report upstream.
>> o Your README states that libswf could be used for SWF support.
>> But configure checks for libming from
>> o ming - http://ming.sourceforge.net/ -
> Good catch. I was going by the docs at the web site, and was led astray. I'll
> ask Dr. Glunz to update his docs. I guess your second patch takes care of
> this.
Yap
> I'm thinking now that packaging plotutils/libplot and then configuring/linking
> pstoedit against that would greatly expand the range of output formats
> available from pstoedit. What would you think about deferring a pstoedit
> package until I make a plotutils package available?
Good idea, and I try to build a ming package.
Ciao
Volker