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--- Begin Message ---Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.5-alpha5-3 Severity: wishlist Hello ! I just found out that it is quite difficult to both use the system wide libraries and some user defined ones. It does look like -library_dir does take only one argument. It definitely should be possible to give a list, which would make everything a lots simpler for people which don't have root access on their machines... Thanks for considering this ! Vincent Fourmond -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages xfig depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpng12-0 1.2.7-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Input extension li ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mo, 22 Nov 2004, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > > I just found out that it is quite difficult to both use the system > > > wide libraries and some user defined ones. It does look like > > > -library_dir does take only one argument. It definitely should be > > > possible to give a list, which would make everything a lots simpler > > > for people which don't have root access on their machines... > > > > > > > Yes, that's a known missing feature :-) > > I personally suggest solving this with a symlink. > > Think about the following directory structure: > > > > ~/xfig/lib/systemwide -> /usr/share/xfig/Libraries > > ~/xfig/lib/local1/ > > ~/xfig/lib/local2/ > > ~/xfig/lib/... > > > That's excellent, thank you ! I really didn't think about it that way... Current upstream author wrote the following about this issue: | As mentioned in http://mcj.sourceforge.net/drawing.html#makelibrary, | one can provide a filename as an option to -library_dir. The file | should contain a list of library paths. This method seems versatile | enough, given that changes to the system libraries or their locations | probably occur once in a few years. Therefore, I close this ticket. So there is no chance that this will be solved in a better way in the future, so I close this issue now. Greetings Roland
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