[Plplot-devel] Install relocatibility patch

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

I tried the latest autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.2 (Maurice uses the earlier
1.7), and libtool-1.4.3, but the bug involving DESTDIR is still there.

Apparently, bug-libtool mailing list has had ongoing discussions about this
bug for the last year at least, but no satisfactory cross-platform solution
has been obtained yet.  However, the solution for Linux is straightforward,
and I copied the enclosed patch from the google cache:
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:vjaWOUEnDsUC:mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-libtool/2002-February/003019.html+libtool+DESTDIR&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

(bug-libtool has somehow clobbered their mailing list archive so only google
cache is left, and will presumably disappear shortly).

This patch works for me on either Debian or RH 7.3, but I don't think it
should be part of our general distribution since it is Linux packager
specific.  Instead, it should be used by Linux packagers as a patch file
(Rafael or David will want to use something like this when they get around
to releasing debs for plplot-5.2.0) so that is why I have posted it here.

Using the attached patch (which is only relevant if you are using
libtool-1.4.3), and using a tarball built with the latest autotools, I have
now been able to "almost" build a complete binary rpm for RH-7.3.  Aside
from the tkwin driver (which had to be abandoned because tkInt.h is not
available on RH-7.3), the configure ; make; and make install went fine.
However, the rpm spec file still needs a bit of massaging of the file list
before a binary rpm can be produced.  But I am almost to the point where
I can start running plplot-test.sh on the RH7.3 machine.

Alan

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Alan W. Irwin
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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