From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2013-12-10 17:59:11
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On 2013-12-10 13:01-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Jan gave me plenty of information to chew on. Some complication arises because under Cygwin > two independent versions of the Tk library are built - for use with X11 and for use with native Windows. > This is handled via a cross-compiler. > > I still have to sort out what this means in terms of epa_build and I will not have the opportunity to do so > today, so I will try that tomorrow. Hi Arjen: I want to emphasize my questions and comments about Cygwin are due to my enthusiasm about the steady improvements you continue to make on that platform (with and without epa_build) and have nothing to do with meeting a release deadline. After all, I will probably only complete epa_build (as I originally envisaged it with working epa_build configurations for both pango/cairo and Qt4) just today for the Linux case. So that is already a nice accomplishment for this forthcoming release of PLplot. Anything extra you can do for the Cygwin platform case (such as your earlier success with pkg-config today) is very welcome and much appreciated, but I certainly don't expect you to have a perfect epa_build for the Cygwin platform by this release date. Now to respond specifically to this e-mail, it is good you are in contact with Jan and most interesting news that there are two versions of Tk for Cygwin. But for now I would advise focussing tomorrow on what he said about Tcl since Tcl obviously must be done before Tk but also because the Tcl build is a much simpler case with only just one Cygwin version. Best wishes, Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |