[Plplot-devel] Latest autotools versions work well on Linux

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Rafael's recent tarball was built with the following (Debian) versions of the
Autotools:

autoconf 2.59
automake 1.8.4
libtool  1.5.6

Just now I tried the corresponding (and latest) autotools versions at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/, and
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/.

cf/bootstrap.sh, the usual build and install, and the usual build of the
installed examples executables and the build of the example plots all went
fine without obvious errors on my Debian stable system.

Thus, I strongly advise all our developers to update to the above versions
of autoconf, automake, and libtool from the gnu sites above.  They might not
be quite identical to what Rafael used to generate the tarball (Debian
sometimes applies patches), but they must be close (since they are the
latest versions so there is not much for Debian to patch), and they work,
and it is best for developers to use versions of the autotools that are as
similar as possible.

BTW, it is great to see PLplot working without obvious problems for the
latest versions of the autotools (at least on the Linux platform, but I hope
we soon get good reports for other platforms as well), and I want to
publically thank Rafael for keeping us so nicely up to date.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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