Re: [Opengrads-devel] dynamic supplibs checking

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Jennifer Adams <jm...@co...> wrote:

> The src and some binaries are out now. ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/2.0/
>
> The supplibs/include directory names I used are like this:
> gadap/  gd/  grib2c/  hdf/  libnc-dap/  libpng12/  netcdf/  readline/
>  udunits/  zlib/
>
> I have not used your pre-compiled supplibs. I believe the new code should
> work with them, but I'm sure some changes to configure.ac and Makefile.am
> will be required.
>

If you give me a sneak preview of a3 I can make sure it builds with
supplibs-2.0.1. It would be much less work than patch and rebuild the
supplibs on all the different platforms. I rather spend the time providing
builds and supplibs for new platforms.



> For my pre-compiled builds, I rebuilt the curl library --without-libidn and
> --without-ssl and then rebuilt all the *dap*.a libraries around that.
> Hopefully they will be more portable. The python interface is not included;
> without any knowledge of python, I can't realistically support it.
>

The pytests/ are not the python interface. I just have a small part of it
(1 file) built in to support the tests. I consider it part of the build as
it allows you a straightforward way to test what you have built. Nothing
python gets installed or distributed, it is just an aid for the builder. It
is just a drop in and uses standard python libraries, no extra install
required (you need python 2.3 or later, pretty common these days).

  BTW, grads v2 is getting nice and stable stable. Isn't about time for a
"b3"? Some people simply would not touch alpha code. Alpha usually means
code that is unstable and with known bugs; you are passed this point.

     Arlindo

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