Re: build files

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 07:25:37 am Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> >
> > Btw. is there anyone who knows about the status of the Zortech (aka Digital Mars)
> > compiler support (makefile.ztc)? (There are also a few terminals
> > which require this compiler...)
> >
> 
> The Zortech (Digital Mars) only drivers in fg.trm (hercules, egamono, egalib, vgalib, vgamono, svgalib, ssvgalib) rely on a library named "Flash Graphics".

Zortech may well be dead, but note
  hercules - also supported by pc.trm
  vgalib - supported by linux.trm and ggi.trm
  svgalib - supported by ggi.trm

> I just checked the Digital Mars Forum at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/c++/dos/32-bits/417.html
> There - and in other threads - I found the following statement:
> 
> "Flash Graphics was the graphics package for DOSX. Unfortunately, the authors of it have chosen to no longer make it available. There's nothing I can do about it."
> 
> The oldest such statement I could find is dated Jul 31 2003. This is probably an indication that the Digital Mars compiler has not been used to compile gnuplot since then. So I propose to remove the drivers and the support for the Zortech compiler (#idef __ZTC__).

Removing fg.trm, makefile.ztc, and code conditional on _ZTC_ sounds fine.

vgalib/svgalib are definitely still in use via the linux and ggi terminals.
hercules - I don't know. Is pc.trm also a candidate for removal?

	Ethan