[ANNOUNCE] libXcm-0.2.6

[Klaus Dittrich]

Am 06/17/10 10:42, schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> Am 17.06.10, 09:45 +0200 schrieb Klaus Dittrich:
>
>> Am 06/17/10 06:40, schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
>>> This is the first release of libXcm a colour management library for the
>>> X Window System. The library communicates X colour regions between
>>> server and clients, which is described in the included net-color spec.
>
>>> git: git://www.oyranos.org/git/xcolor
>>> git-tag: libXcm-0.2.6
>>> Download:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oyranos/files/libXcm/libXcm-0.2.x/libXcm-0.2.6.tar.gz/download
>>>
>
>> To get this lib using wget this url is required
>> "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/oyranos/libXcm/libXcm-0.2.x/libXcm.0.2.x.tar.gz"
>>
>
>> If one specifies a --libdir, /usr/X11/lib for example, no pkgconfig
>> entry gets installed.
>
> Instead
> --libdir=/opt/local
> works fine. Thats used by rpm and I think deb as well.
>
>> Not specifying a libdir it gets installed in /usr/X11/lib64/pkgconfig.
The bug is that by default a pkgconfig gets installed, otherwise not.
It should get installed independend of what is specified by --libdir=.

>> On a 64 Bit only system no /usr/X11/lib64/ exists.
>
> Oops, I was tould that "lib64" is a default for x86_64.
I am not shure what linux-specs say, most distributions have both, 32 
and 64 Bit libs, but in an 64 Bit only systems it make no sense for me.
>
> Hope the above two things are no blocker.
I do not think so.
>
>> Can you please split install in make install and make install-docs, so
>> people like I, not having doxygen installed, can install the lib without
>> getting an error of make install.
>
> In git is now supported:
> make install-bin
> make install-docs
> and according make uninstall-xxx

Fine. There a just too many doc formats and formatters. I stick with TeX.
>
>> Is this lib meant to get part of Xorg in future?
>
> We choose MIT to allow for especially that. Feel free to include libXcm
> into Xorg.
Already done. :-)
>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Klaus Dittrich
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann


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Regards
Klaus Dittrich