Re: [Plplot-general] libqhull

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

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I try to compile the "c" examples with "make" I get
>
> plplot_libtool --mode=link gcc x01c.c -I/usr/include/plplot -L/usr/lib -lplplotd -o x01c
> plplot_libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libqhull.la'
> make: *** [x01c] Error 1
>
> What is the matter?  I got
>
> ii  libplplot-dev 5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1
> ii  libplplot5    5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1   Scientific plotting library
> ii  plplot-doc    5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1
> ii  plplot-gd     5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1
> ii  plplot-tcl    5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1
> ii  plplot-xwin   5.2.0.cvs.20030307-1
> ii  libqhull4     2002.1-3       Calculate convex hulls and related structure
>
> installed, but they do not contain anything like libqhull.la !
>                                                           ^^
>
> Cheers,
> ChriS

I assume your question is Debian-related because of its form, but you don't
say what Debian version you are running or what PLplot version packages you
are running.  However, if you search on
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for libqhull.la you will find it in
debian testing or unstable devel/libqhull-dev.  Debian stable does not have
it.  I suspect your problem will be solved if you install the development
version of the libqhull package.

Rafael, you might want to consider making development versions of all
libraries suggested or recommended?  Obviously, you don't need them simply
to run a pre-existing application that has already been linked with PLplot.
But you do need the development packages if you want to build the examples
or build your own application against plplot.

Alan

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