xfig @3.2.5c_0, transfig @3.2.5d_5: update available to 3.2.6, transfig renamed fig2dev

[tloimer]

As the new maintainer of xfig and transfig, please note that the upstream locations of the xfig and fig2dev, formerly transfig, software packages are now

​https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/xfig-3.2.6.tar.xz

and

​https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/fig2dev-3.2.6.tar.xz

respectively.

The transfig-package has been renamed to fig2dev, because this is really what it is. In fact, the transfig-program itself is considered obsolete, therefore it has to be specifically built with the configure-switch --enable-transfig.

Build and installation can now be done with

./configure --disable-dependency-tracking

for fig2dev and

./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --with-appdefaultdir=/opt/X11/share/X11/app-defaults

for xfig. Then, do make -j; make install-strip

Optionally, make check and make installcheck are both supported.

Please, report success on building or any difficulties you might encounter.

Yours,
Thomas Loimer

[maehne (Torsten Maehne)]

Cc Me!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

In d60d4d6518ed608b484863efe55e7bb0d1f73caa/macports-ports:

fig2dev: new port copied from transfig

update to 3.2.6a; no longer uses imake; conflicts with transfig until
xfig is updated and then transfig will be obsoleted.

see #52080

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

In 4e5e6731d14bdcf4a290346d0fe1a0786babd505/macports-ports:

xfig: update to 3.2.6a; change to use fig2dev

closes #52080