Graphviz's sfdp is seriuosly crippled without a triangulation library
Bug #1409280 reported by
perlhead
This bug affects 20 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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graphviz (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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graphviz (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The Graphviz package is built --without-gts. This is bad news for sfdp, which complains “Error: remove_overlap: Graphviz not built with triangulation library” and fails to produce the beautiful output it creates when compiled --with-gts.
I saw no real justification for this setting, other than a note from 2008 saying that the flag was added to prevent GTS from being linked in “for now”.
It's been nearly eight years... maybe time to reconsider?
no longer affects: | graphiz |
Changed in graphviz (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in graphviz (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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Fede,
How old are your graphviz sources?
When I look at HEAD in git, it looks like --with-gts is the default.
Perhaps you are missing the gts-devel package (maybe libgts-dev) and
configure is trying to fall back to a non-gts build?
John
On 01/10/2015 09:30 AM, Fede Heinz wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The Graphviz package is built --without-gts. This is bad news for sfdp,
> which complains “Error: remove_overlap: Graphviz not built with
> triangulation library” and fails to produce the beautiful output it
> creates when compiled --with-gts.
>
> I saw no real justification for this setting, other than a note from
> 2008 saying that the flag was added to prevent GTS from being linked in
> “for now”.
>
> It's been nearly eight years... maybe time to reconsider?
>
> ** Affects: graphviz (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>