From: <jc...@fe...> - 2003-09-11 23:04:01
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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 22:00, Alan W. Irwin wrote: | This came up in private discussions with Rafael, and we thought we should | get the list involved in the discussion. | | Alan: | > "NOBRAINDEAD appears in a number of places in the source tree, but it is | | essentially totally unsupported in configure.ac and sysloc.in." | | Rafael: | > "The Right Way (TM) of doing this is by adding an | | AC_DEFINE(NOBRAINDEAD,...) to configure.ac and having its value being | controlled by a configure option like --enable-nobraindead. The current | situation is not satisfactory, since plConfig.h.in (which is CVS | controlled) must be edited to change this #define. We could issue a | *_big_* warning if the user specify that switch." | | My first tendency is to say just leave it in its current | (unsupported-by-autotools) state since it is such an exotic option that is | rarely used (never by me, for example). However, I agree with Rafael's | implicit point, that having half-supported options around like this can be | nothing but a pain for future maintenance/understanding of what is going | on with NOBRAINDEAD. | | I am willing to make the changes (essentially following what is done for | the with_freetype logic) if the rest of the list feel this is worthwhile. | Or would it be better to remove NOBRAINDEAD completely from the source | tree. Has anybody actually used it in the last 5 years? Hi, I think this issue was already addressed some time ago. I think to remember that Maurice said that BRAINDEAD was needed by some fortran compilers that some colleagues of him was using. Joao | | Alan | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek | Welcome to geek heaven. | http://thinkgeek.com/sf | _______________________________________________ | Plplot-devel mailing list | Plp...@li... | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel |