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Re: gv-3.6.0 |
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:41:59 -0700 (MST) |
There are two problems with the gv-3.6.0 release:
(1) The tar file unbundles into gv instead of gv-3.6.0. This is in
violation of GNU standards, and breaks automated scripts such as
the one that I use to launch simultaneous build attempts in up to
100 compilation environments on twenty flavors of Unix.
(2) After repackaging to fix (1), I got universal failure on all but
GNU/Linux on IA-32 because the Xaw3d support is not present, at
least not in locations that the configure script finds it. For
example, modern GNU/Linux distributions have it in
/usr/X11R6/lib/, but that location is not found by configure in
several recent packages that I've built.
If you are going to rely on Xaw3d, how about autoconfiguring it in a
subdirectory of gv-x.y.z, so that the horrid Imakefile/xmkmf nightmare
does not have to be dealt with. gv should then build smoothly
everywhere.
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