General information
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Name		: mapitl
Version		: 0.4
Summary		: MAPITL -- Template Library for the MuPAD Application Programming Interface
License		: LGPL/ZLIB
Vendor:		: Nicolas M. Thiery <nthiery@users.sf.net>
URL		: @PKG_URL
Requires	: 
Description	:
This template library provides a modern STL-like look and feel to the
MuPAD Application Programming Interface. Features:
 * Wrapper to use MuPAD lists as standard containers
 * Easy C++ <-> MuPAD conversions with one single overloaded template
   for each directions:
    - C++ object   -> MuPAD object: CtoM(c)
    - MuPAD object -> C++ object:   MtoC<int>(c)
 * This includes conversions to/from containers and recursive containers


Download and Installation
=========================

mapitl is distributed on the web page (see above) in precompiled
RPMs (GNU/linux i386), source RPMs and source code. The file 'INSTALL'
contains instructions for installation from source code. Basically, it
follows the usual scheme:

	unpack, ./configure, make, make check, make install.

Note that if MuPAD is not installed in a standard place, you have to
do the installation from source code, calling configure as follow:

	MUPADdir=<MuPAD_ROOT_PATH> ./configure


License
=======

mapitl is open source software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (a
copy of which is provided in the file 'COPYING.LIB') and/or at your
convenience of the ZLIB licence.


Bug reports & mailing lists
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The web page (see General Information above) provides access to
mailing-lists as well as to a bug tracking system. Please use them for
bug reports, suggestions, flames and other comments. Any contribution
will be warmly welcomed. If you don't have web access, feel free to
contact directly the authors (see the file 'AUTHORS').

Please include the following information in any bug report:
 - Some information about your system:
   - What operating system and version,
   - For Linux, what version of the C library,
   - The version of the compiler (if you know),
   - Anything else you think is relevant;
 - A description of the bug itself;
 - If you can reproduce the bug, the exact steps to reproduce it;
 - Anything else which you think is helpful.


Notes for the maintainer
========================

The configure script us generated by automake/autoconf. Here is the
sequence of commands to recompile fully from scratch:

	make maintainer-clean
	rm -f config.cache configure
	autoreconf
	./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --config-cache
	make
	make check
	make install
