Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I think doing your own specific Makefile based build system for PLplot 
> would
> work, but I also think it would take a rather large effort on your 
> part with
> no beneficial networking effects at all (nobody else would use your 
> approach
> so you could gain little help from anybody else or lend help to anybody
> else). 
Yes definitely undesirable. However this might the fastest way to 
confirm that the end goal is even possible. Then I can go back to 
possibly patching the mainline build system.
> Furthermore, developing your CMake skills is worth doing in its own
> right since an increasing number of projects (KDE is probably the 
> biggest of
> these) use it. Therefore, I encourage you to stick with CMake a bit 
> longer
> even though you are unfamiliar with it at the moment.
Noted. I'm currently on neck deep into the world of scons, and I do have 
a multitasking threshold before my head explodes. :)
> ...

> Specifically, build just the plplot C library (with libqhull and freetype
> dropped to eliminate those dependencies and with no dynamic drivers to
> eliminate the dependence on dynamic loading libraries) 

What features go away by dropping qhull?

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