Re: Help on Ngspice, libdir and getopts
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon@gudjon.org> wrote:
> Hi
> In the last days I have been fixing my ngspice package but then I found
> two errors. I have sent mail to upstream but I send it on this list as well.
>
> 1. The upstream sources contain GPL licensed sources, getopts.c and
> getopts1.c. The rest of the code contains GPL incompatible code so the only
> way is to remove the GPL getopts. Do you know about any usefule BSD getopts
> files?
Are these actually used? I suspect they were provided for legacy systems with
missing/incompatible versions of getopts, and may not even be used on debian,
so could be replaced with dummy files that just contain some explanatory
comment:
/* for Debian, we use the system getopts. Upstream provided GPL versions
** which have been removed to preserve BSD licensing
*/
> 2. I have had problems with different behavior if I build with pdebuild and
> dpkg-buildpackage. One installs into /usr/lib/tcltk and the other
> into /usr/share/tcltk. Now I get the following (very helpful) lintian error
> E: tclspice-dev: incorrect-libdir-in-la-file
> usr/lib/tcltk/libspice.la /usr/share/tcltk != /usr/lib/tcltk
> Does anyone know how to solve this?
>
> Thanks
> Gudjon
>
>
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