From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-02-17 23:15:50
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To PLplot testers and developers: I have just uploaded plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040217.tar.gz (but not the detached digital signature which I am not set up to generate yet) to http://plplot.sourceforge.net/cvs-tarball/. This tarball was built directly from plplot CVS HEAD. No documentation is included with this tarball; use http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.3.0/ instead. The tools used to generate the tarball are autoconf-2.58, automake-1.7.9, and libtool-1.5 (the vanilla versions direct from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/, and http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/ with the appropriate digital signatures) and swig-1.3.21. That is just for information purposes; tarball users don't require autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig if they just stick to ./configure, make, make check, and make install. One change you should notice for this tarball is the default list of devices has been substantially reduced. Many of the ones which are no longer default are associated with old hardware that few (including the developers) can access or test. So for default configurations you should get faster builds and installs. Another change is "make check" should now work from the top-level build directory. It tests whether the examples executables can be built from the build tree, and also automatically generates postscript results for all examples. (These build-tree postscript results should be located in the test directory after make check is run.) The old method of testing the install tree examples (cd $prefix/share/plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040217/examples; make; ./plplot-test.sh) should continue to work as well. I have just tested this tarball on a solaris system, and it passes with flying colours (both the build tree make check, and install tree make; ./plplot-test.sh.) The big Solaris news is the libplplotf77 linking complications should be a thing of the past, i.e., I needed absolutely no FLIBS (which on Solaris for my previous test was a nightmare list of a huge number of different -L and -l options). Indeed, FLIBS is now completely ignored. This confirms a result already found for Mac OS X by Koen for the last test tarball and should make it much easier to build and install PLplot on other Unix platforms. Since the last test tarball (generated by Rafael in that case) I have also substantially changed the Java and Python interface linking, and the linking of gd.la. The results should be more robust now and therefore work on a wider variety of platforms, but the Solaris system on which I just tested plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040217.tar.gz had no Java, Python, or libgd so these new linking changes have so far only been tested on Linux. That's where you cross-platform testers come in.... Anyhow, please test plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040217.tar.gz and report back to the list. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |