[Pkg-octave-devel] New version of Qhull fixes serious error

[Thomas Weber]

Hi Brad, 

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:20:14PM -0500, Brad Barber wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's a new release of Qhull 2010.1 which fixes a serious bug in qh_gethash.   It includes a preliminary C++ interface and improved memory deallocation for the Qhull library.
> 	www.qhull.org
> 	gitorious.org/qhull
>           http://www.qhull.org/download/poly.c-qh_gethash.patch
> 
> The -fno-strict-aliasing problem appears to be fixed in gcc 4.4.  Please let me know if it isn't (i.e., qset seg faults if it is not compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing).
> 
> Rafael Laboissiere maintained libqhull5 until last summer.  I hope someone can take over his good work.
>          http://packages.debian.org/sid/libqhull5
> 
> 					--Brad

Qhull is team-maintained, I'm cc'ing this message to the team's mailing
list.

	Thomas