[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Patch for using system's FTGL in OctPlot

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2006-01-14 12:32]:

> Do you think that you would integrate the FTGL patch (or something
> similar) in OctPlot?  If your answer is yes, do you know when the next
> version of OctPlot will be released?  I am asking these questions because
> because if you answer "no" to any of them, we will go ahead and integrate
> the patches in the Debian package.  I would much prefer that they get
> applied upstream, though.

I experimented further with using the installed version of FTGL and
discovered an important issue.  Octave dynamically loads the module
octplot, which is linked against FTGL.  This will work only under two
conditions: either the FTGL in the system is a shared library (which is
not the case, because the upstream only provides static libraries) or the
FTGL static library in the system has PIC.

It happens that the Debian package ftgl-dev provides
/usr/lib/libftgl_pic.a.  I changed the Debian package to use this file
instead.  The patch that I sent to you (ftgl-use-system-library.patch) is
pretty useless in the general case.  

Notice that the other two patches (drop-distclean.patch and 
octplot.figure.cpp.patch) are still usefull.
 
Cheers,

-- 
Rafael