Re: [Plplot-devel] Important questions on timing and implementation of merge of the AT branch into MAIN HEAD

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

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joao Cardoso wrote:

>
> It now configure/runs/installs OK. Also the x08c example compiles and runs OK.
> Good job.

That is a big relief to hear that most welcome news!

My thanks to Maurice for dealing with this autoconf version issue ahead of
time so the fix was essentially just a new copy of the file he worked on.

I am still not completely done with all the driver issues so it will be late
tonight or more probably early tomorrow when I do the merge.

>
> The only problem is the need to install the package to run the demo.

I think the idea of having multiple install locations (which is essentially
what we do now) is pretty much outside the autotools paradigm.  However, we
could go to the effort of symlinking everything to tmp and making a huge
Makefile.am there which repeated all the build rules, and I think that would
work.  But right now "make install" is very fast so we may not want to go
to this trouble.

I think the thing to do is to gain some experience with this whole new
paradigm over the next few months, then evaluate where we want to go from
there.

Alan