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

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

On 2019-01-04 12:39-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2019-01-04 03:42-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> [...]
>> 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.
>
> Done.  See <https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4830>.
>
> My last bug report to the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 developers got addressed
> late last year with a fix that was rolled out in a timely way.  So
> this project appears to be responsive to bug reports (as opposed to
> ignoring them like some projects do) so I hope to hear soon from them
> whether they decide to go along with this suggestion or not.

Well, it wasn't super quick, but the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 developers
claimed they solved this issue today, see
<https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4830> and a link
from there to another bug report.

Anyhow, this would be a good opportunity for all three of you (Arjen,
Günter, and Tom) to drop Tom's "Requires: gobject-2.0" workaround to
see if this MinGW-w64/MSYS2 bug is really fixed.

Alan
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