Re: [Plplot-general] Building PLplot-5.2.1 under Cygwin and XFree86

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

Hi Ullal:

Thanks for that report of all the creative hackery currently needed to get
PLplot-5.2.1 to run on cygwin.  Fortunately, there is some hope that this
sort of cygwin effort will not be necessary for very much longer.

Our autotools-based configuration that was introduced for PLplot 5.2.0 and
refined for 5.2.1 solved a lot of major configuration problems for us, but
autotools does introduce specific problems (which apparently you have run
into) for the cygwin platform. According to some web searches I have done,
many other projects that use autotools for configuration have also
experienced major problems with the cygwin platform. As I understand it the
cygwin and autotools teams (both based at FSF) have been trying to get the
mutual problems worked out. The Plplot-5.2.1 tarball was based on earlier
autotools versions so it is possible if we build a PLplot tarball based on
the latest autotools (especially libtool-1.5) that will help solve some of
the problems you have encountered.

Right now of course is a difficult time at FSF because they have just
discovered their ftp server has been cracked since March.  There is no
evidence that any of their many software packages was tampered with, but it
may take a couple more days for everything to settle down there with all
tarballs re-verified and gpg signed.  Once the libtool-1.5 tarball becomes
available again from FSF, I would be willing to make a PLplot tarball for
you that is based on that libtool version and the latest versions of the
rest of the autotools to see if that sorts out some of the problems you have
encountered on the cygwin platform for PLplot-5.2.1.

Alan
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