units: update, FHS compliance

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Sab 23/1/10, Albrecht Schlosser  ha scritto:

> Marco Atzeri wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking to take his fltk-X11 package as I need
> fltk
> > for octave and the current package don't work at all
> > for my need as Octave is X11 oriented.
> 
> Well, then there are probably good news from FLTK. The
> current development version (1.3.0) can be configured to
> work with cygwin/X11 OOTB:
> 
> $ ./configure --enable-cygwin --enable-x11
> 
> Since this version also supports UTF-8, this might be a
> good step for Cygwin 1.7 anyway. But it's not yet
> released,
> and this may take some more time (probably months).

as octave 3.4 will need at least some months, it should be fine.

> 
> For the latest stable release (1.1.10) a configure patch
> to make it work with X11 has been posted by the Cygwin
> maintainer (Teun Burgers), but didn't make it into the
> final release. He also supplied the configure/X11 patch
> for the current development version.

I built the 1.1.10 using Yaakov ports and octave
work fine with it.  

> 
> This would probably be easy to maintain in a normal Cygwin
> release. But I don't know Teun's plans..
> 
> Just my 2 ct.
> 
> Albrecht

Thanks for the info
Marco






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