Re: [Plplot-general] PLPLOT-5.14.0: building cairo.dll fails (Windows 10)

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2019-01-04 15:26+0530 Tom Schoonjans wrote:

> You’re welcome.
>
> The issue here is that pango should never have been updated to 1.43.0 in MSYS2 since it’s an unstable development release, as are all GNOME releases with an odd minor version number. Linux distributions and macOS package managers would never have packaged this release.

Hi Tom:

I confirm your analysis on Debian Testing where there is absolutely no attempt to package 1.43.0
despite the "rolling" nature of that release.

So it appears this issue doesn't have the widespread impact I anticipated.

I notice at <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/> that pango
1.42.[1-4] have already been packaged along with 1.43.0.  So I plan to
submit a bug report to the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 maintainers asking them to
rebuild 1.42.4 with their present compiler version and drop their
packaging effort for 1.43.x because of this bug we have been
discussing and also the general instability reason you stated.

Alan

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