Re: Dr Genius 0.5.5 release

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Laurent Gauthier wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:19:45AM +0800, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> > Dr Genius 0.5.5 release at http://drgenius.seul.org
> > 
> > Change log there: http://drgenius.seul.org/log.html
> > 
> > Happy Chinese New Year!
> > 
> 
> Wow!  I like that...
> 
> I'm trying to install it here, and I've discovered that the configure
> script has a dependency on the termcap library.  This does not look
> right to me, as the standard for terminal handling is now terminfo.
> Where is this dependency coming from?  Should we get rid of it?
> Can we get rid of it?
> 
> I've manually removed the check for this library from the configure script.
> 
> In general I have noticed that the configure script does not check for the
> presence of some libs:
> 
>   libglade-gnome
>   libzvt
> 
> In the canvas part I've some problems with C++ compilation. I've  had to
> make a small fix in the file plot_3d.cc (#include <fstream.h> instead of
> <fstream>), and I've had to enable exception support in the compiler by using
> the -fhandle-exceptions command line switch for gcc.

I have not tested this code with any old C++ compilers. Could you please
make the necessary changes and commit them to the tree? I am away from
home and unable to do any work on dr genius right now.

> I've also fixed a small problem in canvas/plot_h.cc at line 91, replace the
> new operator by an invocation of malloc.

I am confused by this one. I had thought that it was acceptable to use new
on a structure. Please change this to make it compatible with your
compiler.

> 
> I've now problems at link time, still with the canvas part.  I'll try to solve
> them later.  I guess that some of these problems may be due to the version of the
> compiler I'm using (2.7.2.3).

Please let me know - I am hoping to keep the code very portable. If it
doesn't compile with gcc 2.7.2.3, than it probably won't compile on SunOS
or AIX or any more exotic unix.

> I'll keep you informed of my progress...
> 
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Aaron Lehmann