libqhull-devel

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 20 22:27, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 4/20/2013 8:42 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >
> >Hi Marco,
> >
> >the includes are in /usr/include/libqhull on Cygwin, but all software
> >using it I've found so far expects to find them in /usr/include/qhull
> >instead.  I've simply dropped a link on my system, but could you explain
> >why you've chosen libqhull?
> 
> 
> Hi Achim,
> upstream decision not mine on latest versions;
> for that reason on octave the qhull check is like this:
> 
> OCTAVE_CHECK_LIB(qhull, QHull,
>   [Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of
> functionality of some geometry functions.],
>   [libqhull/libqhull.h qhull/libqhull.h libqhull.h qhull/qhull.h qhull.h],
>   [qh_qhull], [], [],
>   [warn_qhull=
> 
> as you can see they changed the include 3 times from
> 
> qhull/qhull.h  -> qhull/libqhull.h -> libqhull/libqhull.h

Would it make sense to add symlinks for backward compatibility?


Corinna

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