
autogen.sh to pickup the restored lefty tree complains that HAVE_PS2PDF needs to be in AM_CONDITIONAL so I presume there is a configure.ac affecting change that really needs reverting as well, at least in part. dot extension was deprecated so that no conflict would exist between Graphviz graph files and Microsoft Word document templates, which also.
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Backing out the later change was ok (!2542), one conflict was obvious but the other suggests that there has been later work to further rearrange PDF handling Running.
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Regarding building, I am able to build and install & had a look at reverting the changes you mentioned. The 2nd I could certainly help with, just need to be able to build & test. Simple REST Microservice for rendering Graphviz graphs from DOT files. So for 1) realistically I’d be starting from scratch with both these - I expect it might be possible to run a clean total build to list the out the actual compilations, links etc and to cast that into s suitable makefile - presuming that CMake must share some commonality with other makes. I see that it presently uses Autotools for make I’ve no experience setting up a build to use these nor for that matter have I used CMake. I have a Gitlab account & have cloned the repository. My main focus right now is methodically fixing these, but this is also a multi-year effort.ĭo you have a Gitlab account? If so, you can begin contributing immediately by submitting merge requests to the Graphviz repository. Many of these point to legitimate problems.


Most Graphviz code was written prior to ISO C standardization so, although we now build with C99, there’s a lot of code that could be modernized. Then we need to probably start paying down the technical debt in cmd/lefty. remove Lefty from CI and portable source tarball (!2413).remove build system support for Lefty (!2542).The first steps would be to revert the merge requests that removed build system support:
