[tlbuild] asymptote-2.56 in tl sources

[Ken Brown]

Hi John,

Thanks for taking a look.  Just to be clear, for several years I've been 
building asymptote for the Cygwin distribution by configuring with 
'--enable-gc=system --enable-offscreen 
--with-latex=/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex 
--with-context=/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/third'.  The corresponding link 
command line contained '-lOSMesa -lGLEW -lglut -lGL -lfftw3 -ltirpc -lreadline 
-lrt -lsigsegv -lz -lm -L/usr/lib -lgc -lncurses -lgsl -lgslcblas', and the 
build did not use the Win32 API.

This worked until the commit that removed the glew stuff from configure.ac and 
added the glew.c source, which caused the build to fail.  Things got worse with 
the commit I cited in my first email, which caused the build to fail for a 
different reason (because -lfreeglut doesn't exist in the standard Cygwin 
distribution), and which also caused the build to stop using the POSIX API 
(e.g., for paths).

Thanks again for looking at this.

Ken

On 10/9/2019 4:53 PM, John Bowman wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> Actually, we have always used the win32api, not the X11 headers. All I did was 
> simplify the build process
> to make it easier for others, avoiding the need to move /usr/include/GL out of 
> the way.
> I'll look at your patch to see if there is a way to compile against X11; I don't 
> have X11 installed in cygwin so it may take some work.
> 
> Re: your glew additions: TeXLive has specifically requested that glew be 
> explicitly compiled in, using the included glew.c source
> instead of the GLEW library.
> 
> -- John
> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:46 PM Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kbrow1i at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/6/2019 4:04 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      > John (Bowman) has made more efforts to ease the asymptote build. The
>      > current release (2.56) is in the TeX Live source tree now. If you have a
>      > chance, please try it. (But don't commit new binaries anywhere -- we
>      > won't update the released TL until next year.) --thanks, karl.
> 
>     John,
> 
>     Commit 05f68ab80e7caa521c967b32ba672fa58bcaae3c in the asymptote git repo
>     changed the Cygwin build to use the Win32 API instead of the POSIX API.  I
>     assume this was done for builds that use Cygwin as a tool for building an
>     MS-Windows asymptote, but it breaks the ordinary Cygwin build (both for the
>     Cygwin distribution and for native TeX Live).
> 
>     Can you make the two builds co-exist again?  I was able to do the ordinary
>     Cygwin build by using the attached patch, but it probably breaks the other
>     use case.
> 
>     Ken
>