Re: new snapshot?

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 2/6/09 address@hidden wrote:
>      +. Graphics:
>           + Refactor base_properties
>           + Specific types for properties with improved property value
>             checking
>           + Implement the addprops function allow additional properties
>             to objects
>           + add the hggroup object that has no fixed properties for use
>             by barseries, etc.
>           + Add callback DeleteFcn/CreateFcn to objects
>           + Allow listener functions to be added to objects
>           + Clean separation of backend from property database
>           + Implement experimental backend based on OpenGL and GUI
>             toolkit

I have been interested for some time now to hack around with the new
OpenGL backend.  However, the FTGL text dependency was not detected 
properly on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11).  After a recent mercurial update, 
this problem still exists:

configure: WARNING: "FTGL library not found. Native renderer will not 
have on-screen text"
configure: WARNING:
configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
configure: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native graphics
configure: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be able
configure: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands
configure: WARNING:

I do have ftgl-2.1.2 installed via Macports.  Anyway, it would be nice 
if this could be resolved before the next snapshot.  I remember quite a 
long thread about this problem some time ago, but I don't remember what 
the conclusion was.  I am willing to help debug if someone can suggest 
something for me to try.

Thanks,
Jonathan

P.S.
Octave development sources are also not detecting my installed fftw and 
arpack libraries, but I will leave that for later.