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Re: libqhull-devel
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:28:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: libqhull-devel
- References: <87vc7h82n0 dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid> <5172FA4A dot 7040707 at gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Apr 20 22:27, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 4/20/2013 8:42 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >
> >Hi Marco,
> >
> >the includes are in /usr/include/libqhull on Cygwin, but all software
> >using it I've found so far expects to find them in /usr/include/qhull
> >instead. I've simply dropped a link on my system, but could you explain
> >why you've chosen libqhull?
>
>
> Hi Achim,
> upstream decision not mine on latest versions;
> for that reason on octave the qhull check is like this:
>
> OCTAVE_CHECK_LIB(qhull, QHull,
> [Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of
> functionality of some geometry functions.],
> [libqhull/libqhull.h qhull/libqhull.h libqhull.h qhull/qhull.h qhull.h],
> [qh_qhull], [], [],
> [warn_qhull=
>
> as you can see they changed the include 3 times from
>
> qhull/qhull.h -> qhull/libqhull.h -> libqhull/libqhull.h
Would it make sense to add symlinks for backward compatibility?
Corinna
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