Hi There will be an upcoming name change for the current transfig package, see the following mail excerpt from Thomas Loimer:
> Please, find new upstream versions of xfig and fig2dev at > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/xfig-3.2.6.tar.xz > and > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/fig2dev-3.2.6.tar.xz > respectively. Note, that the name of the package transfig has been changed > to > fig2dev. Users would not immediately know that the fig2dev program, which > is in > most cases necessary when working with xfig, is contained in the transfig > package. Also, the transfig program itself is considered obsolete. It only > builds when enabled with the configure switch --enable-transfig. > > The build process for xfig and fig2dev has been changed from imake to > ./configure; make; make install > or, with some ornaments > ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking > make -j; make check; make install-strip; make installcheck > I believe, there are no special flags necessary for building on cygwin. > However, > for xfig you might want to check the --with-appdefaultdir, --with-icondir > and > --with-applicationsdir options. > > Changes to the previous version were mainly made in porting the code to > autoconf > from the imake file. However, fig2dev now exports to tikz and pict2e, for > use > with latex. Also, several bug fixes have been made. > > Please report how compilation under cygwin fares. Can somebody make me maintainer for the fig2dev package so that I can work on these ? Thanks Volker
