On 2013-10-13 10:48+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > By the way - and I've probably mentioned this before - I use pbuilder to > building the Debian unstable packages on a Ubuntu stable machine. You can do > the same with Debian stable. This works well and is much lighter weight than > installing a virtual machine. Advantages are that you keep a stable platform, > but can test with cutting edge. For packaging it has the added advantage that > you start with a clean base system each time which makes checking build and > runtime dependencies much easier. You might be interested in this for plplot > or for other projects - time permitting of course!
I will keep pbuilder in mind, but for my occasional needs (~10 debs built in the last two years or so) "apt-src build" has always been extremely reliable. That is, until now when I ran into this problem where the built hpdf library was unusuable. So my feeling is there is some Debian packaging issue with libhpdf that is the source of the bad library being built by apt-src, but you might be able to avoid that issue by using pbuilder. After all, the Debian packaging of libhpdf is good enough so that the library results are usable (aside from the font size issue) when built using the official method for Debian itself, so if pbuilder follows that build method quite closely (which apt-src build likely does not), then you might achieve a build where the library actually could be used. Anyhow, when you investigate this further, I hope you try both the apt-src and pbuilder methods. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
