Tech on C&P

For some diagrams, I was so happy to find mscgen, a Message Sequence Chart Generator tool that Michael McTernan maintains on his site. It’s designed to act similar to Graphviz, and apparently can be slotted into Doxygen.

examples/simple_prog_desc

Changes:

• back out the required autoconf from 2.63 to 2.59 (created $(docdir) problems)
• version info is in configure.ac only (specfile imports)
• specfile in root directory, allowing smooth “rpmbuild -ta mscgen-0.17.tar.gz”
• add a AC_SEARCH_LIBS to ensure -lgd is in the link line

My deliverable is a bit unclean in that I didn’t bump the release from #1, and left a tainted build source rather than pristine+patch. My bad.

The build is available here:

• mscgen-0.17-1.i386.rpm (42k 8db2ed6e1811c996be4ddbee96b95b68)
• mscgen-0.17-1.src.rpm (164k 23c32e21611dd457552bff96274691c8)