Thanks for your work on this Ole. It's nice to see AST getting a wider
exposure after all these years!
David
On 28 June 2012 08:51, Olе Streicher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Starlink developers,
>
> some time ago, I started to package the AST and PAL libraries for the
> use in Debian in order to get DS9 packaged on this distribution (they
> will automatically be on the next Ubuntu release as well). This
> succeeded a few weeks ago.
>
> Here are the relevant changes:
>
> * both libraries are renamed to libstarlink-(ast,pal) since the
> three-letter name seemed too short for a quite special library, and a
> "libast" library already exists (the "Library of Assorted Spiffy
> Things").
>
> * The standard automake is used instead of Starlinks own version.
>
> * Only pal, ast, ast-err, and ast-grf3d libraries are build since the
> others were not needed for DS9. I can include them if there is a need
> in Debian for them.
>
> * The ast_link program is not included.
>
> * AST uses PAL as external dependency, and PAL uses iausofa_c as
> external library.
>
> Both libraries were successfully build on all official platforms for Debian:
>
> Linux
> =====
> * i386, amd64, ia64
> * sparc, powerpc
> * armel, armhf: ARM architectures with and without an FPU (little endian)
> * mips, mipsel: MIPS architecture (big-endian and little-endian)
> * s390, s390x: IBM ESA/390 architecture and z/Architecture
>
> Other
> =====
> * kfreebsd-i386, amd64: Debian on top of a FreeBSD kernel
> * hurd-i386: GNU Hurd kernel on x86 architecture
>
> Also, it is build on the "alpha" and "ppc64" ports of Debian. On other
> unofficial ports, it is still not built; mainly due to missing
> preconditions.
>
> All builds include a successfull run of the unit tests that come with
> the packages; so I am quite confident that your libraries actually work
> on all platforms. The versions that are in Debian are pal-0.1.0 and
> ast-7.0.4.
>
> I would like to thank you for the good cooperation! It was a real
> pleasure for me, and I hope that we can continue there when the
> development goes on. Feel free to contact me on any questions or
> comments regarding the packaging.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
> P.S., some links:
>
> * Debian developer pages:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/starlink-ast.html
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/starlink-pal.html
>
> * git repositories with the debian specifics (in the debian/ subdirectory)
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/starlink-ast.git
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/starlink-pal.git
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