[ghemical-devel] OpenBabel-1.100.2 Release Candidate 2, testers wanted

Michael Banck mbanck@gmx.net
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:08:44 +0100


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:07:09AM +0200, Tommi Hassinen wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0200, Tommi Hassinen wrote:
> > > I made some updates into the v1.01+ version (branch MANY_PROJECTS_BRANCH
> > > in CVS); it now takes libmopac7 and openbabel CFLAGS and LIBS from
> > > pkg-config (although no proper tests exist in configure yet).
> >
> > Just curious, will you release a 1.02 with these changes? And will there
> > be an initial mopac7-0.1 (or whatever it'll be called) release soon?
> 
> yes I think the v1.02 could be released once everything seems to work. And
> mopac7-0.1 is at the same situation.

Great. As sneaking completely new packages into Debian takes manual
intervention on behalf of the archive administrators, it usually takes a
while so I'm not sure whether I could get a mopac7 package in before
the freeze of the archive prior to the release.

So I guess I'll stick with a hacked ghemical for the time being, will
package mopac7 as soon as something got released and once mopac7 is in,
I'll switch to 1.02.

> > I'm currently trying to figure out how to get ghemical packaged up for
> > the next Debian release. I can still just hack the Makefile myself a bit
> > and link dynamically to libopenbabel0 - I hope you don't mind?
> 
> Ok, it's just good to test all this stuff.  :)

I built a dynamically linked (to openbabel) ghemical yesterday, and it
seems to work fine.

> Currently the compile/link settings are taken from pkg-config and I think
> that should be more or less ok. But what is still completely missing is
> the tests for existence of these various packages in the configure script.

That's easy:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GHEMICAL, openbabel >= 1.100.2)

or

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GHEMICAL, openbabel >= 1.100.2 \
	mopac7 >= 0.1 \
	foo >= 1.0)

should do the trick.


Michael

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