[Plib-users] Prepare for PLIB 1.3/1.4

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
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From PLIB 1.3.1 onwards, there will be a new library 'libplibul.a' with some common
utility functions that other PLIB libraries may need.

If you use 'autoconf/automake' to build your application, you can easily cope
with this change by adding:

    AC_CHECK_LIB(plibul, ulInit,,,)

...with that in your 'configure.in', you should be able to build against either
PLIB 1.3.0 and earlier or PLIB 1.3.1 and later.

If you intend to actually call any UL functions in your application, then you'll
need to call ulInit() before you do so - and #include <plib/ul.h>

If you don't intend to call UL functions, you still need to link to UL - but you
don't have to call ulInit.

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