On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:56:56AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:23:30PM -0500, Reid Barton wrote: > > > > > The potrace source also seem to contain a libpotrace, which is > > > > > fromexample used by dvisvgm. Could you please also build libpotrace > > > > > and libpotrace-dev packages? > > > > > > > > By default upstream's build infrastructure builds only static library. > > > > Would it be enough for you or should I ask him to provide dynamic > > > > library > > > > too? > > > > > > No, I really need the dynamic library. > > > > I would quite like a libpotrace package as well. I did manage to > > build a shared library manually without too much difficulty, but I > > didn't really understand what I was doing with regards to the build > > system and it would be most convenient for me if the dynamic library > > was packaged by Debian for easy installation everywhere. > > Just enlight me how did you do that ;)
I applied the attached patch and then ran 'autoreconf -i -s'. A subsequent 'fakeroot make -f debian/rules install' produces a dynamic library and a potrace binary linked against it. It doesn't yet install the header file potracelib.h. I hope that's straightforward to fix. Regards, Reid Barton
diff -Naur potrace-1.8/configure.in potrace-1.8-shlib3/configure.in --- potrace-1.8/configure.in 2007-04-08 20:27:12.000000000 -0400 +++ potrace-1.8-shlib3/configure.in 2009-11-28 21:00:45.000000000 -0500 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_PROG_RANLIB dnl AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL -dnl AC_PROG_LIBTOOL +AC_PROG_LIBTOOL dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dnl check for compiler bugs. diff -Naur potrace-1.8/src/Makefile.am potrace-1.8-shlib3/src/Makefile.am --- potrace-1.8/src/Makefile.am 2007-04-08 20:36:44.000000000 -0400 +++ potrace-1.8-shlib3/src/Makefile.am 2009-11-28 21:01:05.000000000 -0500 @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ backend_gimp.c backend_gimp.h backend_xfig.c backend_xfig.h \ backend_pdf.c backend_pdf.h lzw.c lzw.h bitops.h auxiliary.h potracelib.h \ bitmap.h curve.h platform.h progress.h -potrace_LDADD = libpotrace.a @EXTRA_OBJS@ -lm @EXTRA_LIBS@ -potrace_DEPENDENCIES = libpotrace.a @EXTRA_OBJS@ +potrace_LDADD = libpotrace.la @EXTRA_OBJS@ -lm @EXTRA_LIBS@ +potrace_DEPENDENCIES = libpotrace.la @EXTRA_OBJS@ mkbitmap_SOURCES = mkbitmap.c bitmap_io.c bitmap_io.h greymap.c \ greymap.h platform.h @@ -25,25 +25,25 @@ mkbitmap_DEPENDENCIES = @EXTRA_OBJS@ potracelib_demo_SOURCES = potracelib_demo.c -potracelib_demo_LDADD = libpotrace.a -lm -potracelib_demo_DEPENDENCIES = libpotrace.a +potracelib_demo_LDADD = libpotrace.la -lm +potracelib_demo_DEPENDENCIES = libpotrace.la #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # static libraries: -noinst_LIBRARIES = libpotrace.a -libpotrace_a_SOURCES = curve.c curve.h trace.c trace.h decompose.c \ - decompose.h potracelib.c potracelib.h lists.h auxiliary.h bitmap.h \ - progress.h +#noinst_LIBRARIES = libpotrace.a +#libpotrace_a_SOURCES = curve.c curve.h trace.c trace.h decompose.c \ +# decompose.h potracelib.c potracelib.h lists.h auxiliary.h bitmap.h \ +# progress.h #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # dynamic libraries: -#lib_LTLIBRARIES = libpotrace.la -#libpotrace_la_SOURCES = curve.c curve.h trace.c trace.h decompose.c \ -# decompose.h potracelib.c potracelib.h lists.h auxiliary.h bitmap.h \ -# progress.h -#libpotrace_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 +lib_LTLIBRARIES = libpotrace.la +libpotrace_la_SOURCES = curve.c curve.h trace.c trace.h decompose.c \ + decompose.h potracelib.c potracelib.h lists.h auxiliary.h bitmap.h \ + progress.h +libpotrace_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # other stuff to distribute
