Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot and latest Ubuntu (pre)-release

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-04-22 19:56+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:

>
> I've just upgraded to the latest release candidate for the new Ubuntu
> release "Hardy Heron". The good news is that plplot svn builds fine on
> this.

Good.

>
> Unfortunately the tcl and psttf tests fail. The tcl problem is
> the problem which Alan found in Debian testing some time ago where
> itcl.tcl can't be found. Unfortunately the fix didn't make it across to
> Ubuntu.

Andrew knows this already, but just to add to what he said for the benefit
of others here, you can work around that problem by setting, e.g.,

export ITCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/itcl3.2


> The psttf problem is the old
> issue with lasi and missing glyphs. Again the latest lasi release hasn't
> made it into Ubuntu in time.

Again for the benefit of others here, liblasi-1.0.6 was not robust against
missing glyphs or glyphs (such as bitmapped) that could not be used by
liblasi.  The latest liblasi-1.1.0 is much more robust against such glyph
problems (it simply renders nothing and moves on rather than erroring out).
So far we have not found any glyph problem that causes an error for 1.1.0.

Until 1.10 becomes available for a particular distribution, the only way to
avoid erroring out for prior versions is to install high-quality TrueType
fonts that provide the missing or bitmapped glyph that is causing the
trouble.

Thanks to Rafael and Andrew's recent packaging efforts, the 1.1.0 libLASi
release is now available in Debian unstable and should propagate to Debian
testing in 9 days and to Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives some time after
depending on their various release schedules.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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