[Plplot-devel] ndiff build system

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

Hi Andrew:

One of my recent posts to PLplot-devel included a rudimentary but
still useful CMake-based build system for ndiff. I have now (revision
12250) made that available in external/ndiff along with instructions
on how to use it. I encourage you to expand that build system if you
have additional needs (e.g., installation which should take basically
10 minutes to add).

I often wondered why nobody packaged ndiff for Debian, but I suspect
the problem is lack of installation relocatability for the current
aged and bit-rotted build system. I think you get installation
relocability automatically with the new CMake-based build system
(using the DESTDIR variable in the make command) so if you happened to
be interested in packaging ndiff for Debian, this CMake-based build
system would be a useful first step toward that goal.

Alan
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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).
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