On 2009-02-12 15:36-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm trying to start to address > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484519
P.S. I had a look at that, and I think the guy is mostly complaining about issues which arise from split up packages since many of those errors should never occur with an ordinary PLplot build. For example, we configure examples/plplot-test.sh and examples/Makefile in the install tree with cmake to reflect the exact components of PLplot that are available during the actual build. If after that, you remove some of those components via splitting up components of the full build into separate packages, plplot-test.sh and the make command are obviously going to fail. I guess a belt AND suspenders approach is required here assuming packagers are always going to split builds into sub-packages. That is, test for each directory's existence in both the configured plplot-test.sh and Makefile at run time even though such checks are not necessary if you don't split things up. (Note, in the recent past I removed directory existence checks in the Makefile case because I forgot the split package issue and thought they were redundant.) Would you please send me a patch putting in the directory existence checks in the plplot-test.sh case and reinstating them for the Makefile case? I would appreciate it if you would check the patch by running "make test" in the installed examples tree for each of your split up packages (with the other installed examples removed). Such a tested patch should sort out many of the guy's complaints mentioned in the URL above, and I would be glad to apply that to help out all packagers who normally split install-tree results up into smaller subpackages. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
