Re: [Plplot-devel] Test results for psttf

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2006-04-23 13:23+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> The problem (missing mkdir commands) comes from the fact that the mkinstalldirs
> script distributed in the tarball is empty:
>
> $ tar tfvz lasi_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz | grep mkinstalldirs
> -rw-r--r-- edtrager/users      0 2003-07-28 21:58:48 lasi-1.0.4/mkinstalldirs
>

Yes, I noticed that empty script file also.  Also, 'info autotools' says
this is a legacy script which is not used any more in modern autotools use
(which is confirmed by our own PLplot builds).  This and the date of the
above file seems to indicate Ed was using old versions of the autotools.

I am going to play with this a bit with modern autotools to see if I can get
this cleaned up including dropping the extraneous files you mentioned
with the goal in mind of preparing a clean tarball and sending a source tree
patch to Ed.  I believe this should not take much effort since LASi is so
tiny and uncomplicated compared to PLplot.  I will let you and Andrew know
(off list) what success I have with the cleanup.

Alan
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