Re: [Plplot-devel] Yet another example build configuration tool (was more on OS X)

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ai...@us...> [2004-01-04 09:50]:

> This just reminded me there is another alternative as well that works
> cross-platform, does not require the pkg-config package, and (unlike
> plplot_libtool) does not hijack the command-line .  Please have a look at
> plplot-config.  This was written by Maurice LeBrun as a convenient front-end
> for plplot_libtool, and it apparently works quite well.

Just to remember you: I am the original author of plplot-config.  Although I
liked very much that script, I abandoned it in favor of the pkg-config
approach.  Anyway, I am pleased you resurrected the script since redundancy
improves the robustness of the system.

> Don't hold the cvs snapshot tarball [...]

I won't.

> [...] for this since it is only a design issue and has no direct practical
> impact.  This change will take me some extra time today because I notice
> that plplot-config.in does not yet take advantage of the TCLINCCMD,
> TKINCCMD, and INCLUDE_DIR_CMD configuration variables.

plplot-config.in should not use TCLINCCMD and TKINCCMD, otherwise you will
impose on the users a specific version of Tcl/Tk (since the include
directories are versioned).  This is the reason I decided to not use then in
pkgconfig/plplotd-tcl.pc.

TCLINCCMD and TKINCCMD should be used solely in Makefile.examples.in, as an
example for the user.

-- 
Rafael