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SPECX, JCMTDR and CONVERT all link against figaro libraries. I'm waiting for Malcolm to fix the makefile to install them as a .a with a rename to prefix fig_. Since it will only take 10 minutes to do this I'm willing to fix the makefiles. Tim On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Norman Gray wrote: > Anyone! > > Echomop and Figaro appear to have an entirely unhealthy relationship, > which can only end in tears. The original makefile links Echomop using > "-L/star/sources/figaro -lgen" (oh yes, uninstalled private libraries), > and true enough, if you omit that library, Echomop fails to find the > symbols > > _gen_forterr_ > _gen_qfmed_ > _gen_medflt_ > _gen_centroid_ > _gen_sortf_ > _gen_epolyd_ > _gen_rangef_ > > Does anyone recognise these? That is, does Echomop pull ESP's trick > and link against random bits of the source tree when it could simply > link against all-powerful kaplibs? (`Immortal, invisible, kaplibs so > wise...'). > > I presume from the name, and from the names of these routines, that > Figaro's `gen' library is a collection of general utility routines, > supposedly private to Figaro. Perhaps these ought to be in PDA (I > recall that there are licence problems with Figaro; but there are > licence problems with the `PD' routines in PDA, so we'd not be > multiplying our troubles there). > > Or perhaps we should modify Figaro to install a libfigaro_for_echomop.a > (my preference right now). > > There ought to be a law against it -- I shall write to the Daily Mail > immediately. > > Norman > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK > http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk > -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj