Re: Trial plotutils packages again

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

James R. Phillips wrote:
> OK, here is another try at packaging plotutils properly.  Please verify
> correctness and upload if ok.


SUMMARY: one showstopper easily fixed.  Everything else is a niggle.

Showstopper: the DLL packages are not bzip'ed, but they are named as if 
they are.  Once this is fixed, GTG.

DETAIL:

Rebuilt from -src tarball with no problems.

These three packages are not bzip'ed.  They are simple tarballs:

  tar cvf ${xmi_pkg} usr/bin/cygxmi-0.dll && \
  tar cvf ${plot_pkg} usr/bin/cygplot-2.dll && \
  tar cvf ${plotter_pkg} usr/bin/cygplotter-2.dll \

> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libplot2/libplot2-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2
> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libplot2/setup.hint
>
> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libplotter2/libplotter2-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2
> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libplotter2/setup.hint
>
> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libxmi0/libxmi0-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2
> ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/plotutils/libxmi0/setup.hint

There's no need to list the files in the tarballs; in fact it's actually 
discouraged (because it always ends up getting out of date).

> Files included in plotutils-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2

However, this one is missing a few docs (NOT a showstopper; just note 
for the next release)

+usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/COMPAT
+usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/KNOWN_BUGS
+usr/share/doc/plotutils-2.4.1/PROBLEMS

> Files included in plotutils-doc-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2

OK.

> Files included in libplot-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2

Actually, this one has been renamed to 'plotutils-devel' (see what I 
mean about these filelists getting out of date? <g>)

On a more substantive note, plotutils-devel is missing the static libraries.

+usr/lib/libplot.a
+usr/lib/libplotter.a
+usr/lib/libxmi.a

This is to be expected, as you configured using --disable-static.  It's 
your decision of course, but why the omission? (NOT a showstopper)


> Files included in libplot2-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2
> Files included in libplotter2-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2
> Files included in libxmi0-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2


>  2) The large source patch is due to having to autoreconfigure the source
> package
>     after patching some of the autotools input files. See
> CYGWIN-PATCHES/small.patch
>     for the smaller set of source patches used prior to autoreconfigure.

Boy, after claiming to be an autotools novice you certainly weren't 
content to take my patches and run! <g>  I am a little confused, tho: I 
found that with autoconf-2.59, I got too many warnings when 
re-autotooling unless I made the extensive changes you saw in my patch. 
 Your patch to the two configure.in's is much simpler: are you using an 
older, less stringent autoconf, or are you just ignoring the warnings? 
(NOT a showstopper)

>  3) C. Wilson maintained an earlier version of this package at
>     http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/testing/ADOPT-ME/plotutils/

NOT a showstopper, but next time pls remove the URL; once packages have 
been adopted I delete them from the server so that link will be dead soon.

--
Chuck