[Ifeffit] compiling ifeffit with pgplot on unix
Matt Newville
newville at cars.uchicago.edu
Mon Jul 28 20:01:56 CDT 2003
Bruce,
Should the INSTALL script be updated? I thought the directions
there are pretty clear, and do include this line:
If PGPLOT is not already installed, you'll need to install it __BEFORE__
configuring Ifeffit.
> P.S. Carlo Segre is kindly packaging ifeffit into Debian package
> files. This is a *great* way for people to help out with the
> ifeffit project without needing to write code. If any of you
> are users of Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Connectiva, or any other
> linux distribution (such as the über-cool Gentoo) and wanted to
> contribute packages guaranteed to work on those systems, that
> would be great! Just let me or Matt know and we will help you
> get started. The same would be true for anyone using any of the
> commercials unixes (Solaris, SGI, etc.) which have their own
> packaging systems.
Sorry, but I won't help build binaries for linux or other Unix-like
systems expect Mac OS X. Installing from source is just not that
hard if there's a compiler and X windows. It's fine with me if
someone else makes and distributes debs or rpms or whatever else.
For Mac OS X, I reluctantly agree that a binary installer is a good
idea because many packages from Fink are needed for Ifeffit to work,
and because pretty much everyone has had trouble using Fink. A very
big thanks to Paul and Jeff for the effort on this!!
--Matt
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