Re: Please help: failed build of plastimatch 1.5.16+dfsg-2 for several architectures

[Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:20:11 +0100
Martin Steghöfer <martin@steghoefer.eu> wrote:

Hi Martin,

Regarding the remaining issues.

> There are still problems on 2 platforms, but they seem unrelated:
> 1. On arm64 it's "BD-Uninstallable", which is because of a chain of 
> uninstallables: gccxml -> cableswig -> libinsighttoolkit3-dev -> 
> plastimatch. There's probably nothing we can/have to do about it.

I briefly looked into this yesterday.  It seems it could be solved by 
creating a platform configuration for gccxml.  However, time is probably 
better spent on ITK4 porting.

> 2. On hurd-i386 there's a plastimatch-related compilation problem with a 
> constant "MAX_PATH" that is missing on that platform. Looks like 
> plastimatch has been failing on that platform all along because of this 
> problem.

This is a problem upstream.  I will investigate.

Thank you,
Greg