Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

   Last call for changes to the 4.4.0 code or docs prior to release

On Friday 05 March 2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> The Microsoft SDK is  not necessarily required. 
> Only the MS Help Workshop is required as the MS staff.
> 
> In makefile.mgw, and makefile.cyg, make processes are respectively written as,
> 
> # - compile the package: go to directory 'gnuplot' and therefrom run
> #	 make -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw
> 
> and,
> 
> # - compile the package: go to directory 'gnuplot' and therefrom run
> #	 make -C src -f ../config/makefile.cyg
> **************************************
> 
> I propose that the part is simplified to
> ***************************
> Using the MinGW32 port of gcc, read instruction written in config/makefile.mgw.
> 
> Using the Cygwin port of gcc, read instruction written in config/makefile.cyg.
> ***************************
> 
> It might be better to add 'install' description in makefile.mgw and makefile.cyg,
> # - compile ans install the package: go to directory 'gnuplot' and therefrom run
> #	 make -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw
> #	 make install -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw
> 
> Any comments?

Fine by me.
 
I have made those changes to INSTALL and the makefiles for mgw and cygwin.
I will also disable the HAVE_PWD_H option because
(1) Manfred Schwarb has reported here that it causes static build problems
(2) Daniel Löb has reported on the newsgroup that it introduces privacy issues
(3) It seems like a totally unnecessary bell (or is it a whistle?) that in any case
    is used only by the PostScript and PDF terminal output 

I will generate the 4.4.0 source tarball tonight, and the wait for Tatsuro and/or
Petr to generate binary packages for windows so that the source and binaries 
can be uploaded to SourceForge on the same date.

	Ethan