Hi Werner: Thanks for updating the wiki with regard to finding the best/easiest sets of pango/cairo and qt library stacks for Mac OS X. And thanks for testing the result with ctest.
On 2010-02-19 12:04+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > > I wasted numerous hours compiling cairo/pango on Mac OS X. I don't like > fink or macports, since there is always a package I want or depend on, > which doesn't compile. I actually succeeded just to find out, that there > is a much easier way to get these libraries [which is now documented in the wiki] It appears you have found a really solid binary version for now, but in case that (or fink or macports) doesn't work for someone in the future or they are just curious about how to build the pango/cairo stack of libraries from source, I would highly recommend the jhbuild system (http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/2.28/jhbuild.html) to keep track of all the dependent version sets, downloads, builds, and configuration for each of the components in the stack. I last used jhbuild to build my own pango/cairo stack two years ago by simply editing the recommended configuration for the complete build of the GTK+ stack of libraries to eliminate all but pango and its full list of dependencies (which includes cairo) from the build. Since then, jhbuild has evolved so that it is now used to build all of the GNOME desktop (!), but I am sure the principal is the same, and it would be easy to edit the jhbuild configuration so that only the pango/cairo subset of GNOME was built. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
