Re: inclusion of `hintview` into Debian

[Preuße, Hilmar <hille42@web.de>]

On 21.07.2023 10:10, Erik Braun wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Preuße, Hilmar wrote:

Hi,

> Yes, Cmake does strange things. For example, it links the shared libaries
> as filenames to the `hintview` executable, instead of using well known options
> like `-lGL -lGLEW`.
;-)

> > My impression is that the program uses an outdated version of libglew and is
> > not able to use more recent ones. At least the version in Debian is unusable.
> > Martin started a new development on [2], but I don't have the impression, that
> > this stuff is end user ready.
>
> After the TUG conference a few days ago I told Prof. Ruckert that I try to make
> hintview's use more userfriendly. As I said: once compiled the program works
> (for me).
>
> > Let me know, if you find a way to compile the program on Debian, then we may start packaging.
>
> I hope MIMEdefang does not alter this link::
>    https://comedy.dante.de/~erik/hintview-build.sh
Many thanks! Lines 40 to 43 did the trick for me.

hille@sid-amd64:~/devel/hintview$ ls -l *deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 hille hille 142228 Jul 21 10:25 hintview_2.0-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 hille hille 414840 Jul 21 10:25 hintview-dbgsym_2.0-1_amd64.deb

I do not understand, why the cmake does not detect the gtk library and 
still builds w/o gtk support, but at least I have a buildable package now.

Hilmar

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