Author: ken
Date: Mon Nov 16 13:57:04 2015
New Revision: 16664
Log:
asymptote: remove the workaround for current libgsl, replace it by a
conditional sed to implement the upstream fix.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Nov 16 09:08:33
2015 (r16663)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Nov 16 13:57:04
2015 (r16664)
@@ -43,11 +43,15 @@
</listitem>
-->
-
<listitem>
<para>November 16th, 2015</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Fix a build failure in asymptote-2.35 with
+ current libgsl. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;7104">#7104</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Add a modification from upstream to xmlto to fix a
regression when cleaning up.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml Mon Nov 16 09:08:33 2015
(r16663)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml Mon Nov 16 13:57:04 2015
(r16664)
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Asymptote Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
<xref linkend="gs"/>,
@@ -88,10 +86,7 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<ulink url="http://www.fftw.org/";>FFTW</ulink>,
- <!-- link to an external version until asymptote is altered
- to build with libgsl-2
- <xref linkend="gsl"/> -->
- <ulink url="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsl/";>libgsl</ulink> (versions
< 2.0)
+ <xref linkend="gsl"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (at runtime, to use
xasy)</bridgehead>
@@ -115,6 +110,13 @@
<title>Installation of asymptote</title>
<para>
+ If you have installed version 2 of libgsl, fix a build failure:
+ </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '/ellint_D/s/3/2/' \
+sed -e '/ellint_D/s/.SYM(n)//' gsl.cc</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>
Install <application>asymptote</application> by running the following
commands:
</para>
@@ -128,8 +130,7 @@
--mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man \
--enable-gc=system \
--with-latex=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/latex \
- --with-context=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/context/third \
- --disable-gsl &&
+ --with-context=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/context/third
&&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>
@@ -160,6 +161,10 @@
<emphasis>will</emphasis> be found by <command>info</command>.
</para>
+ <para><parameter>sed ...</parameter>: change the reference to
+ <literal>gsl_sf_ellint_D</literal> to use addGSLDOUBLE2Func and to
therefore
+ omit the last parameter, for gsl major version 2.</para>
+
<para><parameter>--libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist;</parameter>:
This parameter ensures that the <filename
class="directory">asymptote</filename>
directory will similarly overwrite any files installed by
install-tl-unx.</para>
@@ -173,14 +178,6 @@
<application>texlive</application> directories instead of creating a
<filename class="directory">texmf-local</filename> directory for
them.</para>
- <para><parameter>--disable-gsl</parameter>: if a current version of libgsl
has
- been installed, the configure script will attempt to use it and the build
will
- fail because of changes in that library. Remove this switch if you have
installed
- an older version of libgsl instead of the current version. It is believed
that
- few people need to link asymptote to libgsl: if you are one of those
people,
- please consider updating the user notes to explain what libgsl brings to
- asymptote.</para>
-
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
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