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- From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Image Magick 2.1 and graphics jump libs available at sunsite
- Message-ID: <SCT.92Nov23134945@barley.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:49:45 GMT
- References: <chengb.722231259@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <1992Nov23.092946.23409@fys.ruu.nl>
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- Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland
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- In-Reply-To: hooft@fys.ruu.nl's message of 23 Nov 92 09:29:46 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov23.092946.23409@fys.ruu.nl>, hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
- > In <chengb.722231259@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce) writes:
- >>OK, for those who are interested, I have uploaded the diffs for
- >>the latest Image Magick 2.1 to Sunsite, you can get the original source
- >>from export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib and compile after you patch
- >>it with my diffs. You'll need the jump libs I uploaded, ...
-
- > I think there is a mistake somewhere. If those are jumplibs they are
- > not useful to anyone, because jumplibs need a shared image in /lib/
- > to run, and that doesn't seem to be included. I think these are just
- > normal libraries, containing all the code.
-
- > Anyone needing a graphics jumplib (with the disk-space-saving-effect)
- > could as well check my package on sunsite.unc.edu
- > /pub/Linux/Incoming/jumptables/libgr01.TZ. it also contains the four
- > p[pgbn]m libs. And there's more jumptables in the same directory (f2c
- > and readline), and some packages using them.
-
- Thoroughly seconded. Shared libraries are supposed to save disk
- space, and they won't do so if everybody releases their own versions
- of those libraries. I have already got those of Rob Hooft's jumplibs
- which I need; they were, I think, the first graphics jumplibs
- available so it probably makes as much sense for them to become
- standard as anybody else's.
-
- Maybe this should be made official; should they be put into
- /pub/OS/Linux/lib on funet, perhaps? Come to think of it, is there
- anybody, anywhere, looking after standard libs (apart from HJ's libc,
- of course)?
-
- Cheers,
- Stephen Tweedie.
- ---
- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
- Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
-