Changeset def0c00 for pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml

Timestamp:

11/12/2015 02:17:44 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

145cccdf

Parents:

71b2520e

Message:

asymptote: work around build failure with current libgsl by disabling it.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@16634 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml

@@ -89 +89 @@
     <para role="optional">
       <ulink url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</ulink>,
-      <xref linkend="gsl"/>
+      <!-- link to an external version until asymptote is altered
+      to build with libgsl-2
+      <xref linkend="gsl"/> -->
+      <ulink url="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsl/">libgsl</ulink> (versions &lt; 2.0)
     </para>
 
@@ -126 +129 @@
  --enable-gc=system \
  --with-latex=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/latex \
- --with-context=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/context/third &amp;&amp;
+ --with-context=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/context/third \
+ --disable-gsl &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -169 +173 @@
     <application>texlive</application> directories instead of creating a
     <filename class="directory">texmf-local</filename> directory for them.</para>
+
+    <para><parameter>--disable-gsl</parameter>: if a current version of libgsl has
+    been installed, the configure script will attempt to use it and the build will
+    fail because of changes in that library. Remove this switch if you have installed
+    an older version of libgsl instead of the current version. It is believed that
+    few people need to link asymptote to libgsl: if you are one of those people,
+    please consider updating the user notes to explain what libgsl brings to
+    asymptote.</para>
 
   </sect2>