Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42

[Charles Wilson]

James R. Phillips wrote:

> 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?
> 
> I've done a trial build of plotutils, and only issue I see is that it won't
> build a shared library (libplot) on cygwin, even if it is told to do so during
> configuration.  It builds a static library fine, as far as I can tell. 
> Assuming I go with that instead of trying to fix the issue, that means libplot
> will be a development library  only, required at build time, but not at run time.
> 

And again: http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/testing/ADOPT-ME/plotutils/

fully DLLized --  but check the README (might need some work to be 
brought up to current g-b-s standard):

--- plotutils-2.4.1-orig/CYGWIN-PATCHES/plotutils.README        Wed Dec 
31 19:00
:00 1969
+++ plotutils-2.4.1/CYGWIN-PATCHES/plotutils.README     Sun Feb  3 
23:03:07 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+placeholder
+
+Initial patch modifies configure.in and creates
+CYGWIN-PATCHES/plotutils.README.  This patch is
+archived as plotutils-2.4.1-X.patch2.
+
+So, instead of `./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh all'
+if you want to build plotutils from SCRATCH,
+and you have auto*-devel and libtool-devel
+installed, you can do the following, manually:
+
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh prep2  (! NOT 'prep')
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh conf
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh build
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh strip
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh pkg
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh spkg
+./plotutils-2.4.1-X.sh finish
+
+Prep2 deletes some existing auto* files, applies
+'patch2', and then runs the autotools in both
+the top level directory and in the libxmi directory
+
+Ordinarily, tho, you'd just use "prep" which applies
+the FULL patch and proceeds from there -- this option
+doesn't require the autotools to be installed.
+


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Chuck