Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with test-drv-info a bit clearer

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

On 2010-05-10 09:14+0200 Werner Smekal wrote:

>> [...]Therefore, I believe the only thing left to do (for those users
>> who are building but not testing so they don't have their PATH set to dll)
>> is to change the location of the test-drv-info executable to dll for the
>> if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN) case.  If I can get that to
>> work on Wine, I will commit the change (unless you beat me to it or unless
>> you know of some reason why that wont work).
>
> I just commited the change. This works for me on MinGW.

Hi Werner:

Your commit was just what I had in mind.  Thanks for dealing with this.  I
think life will be noticeably easier now for our Windows users who are just
building and/or installing PLplot without testing it.

BTW, I have just searched for /dll in the wiki and there are a large number
of hits. From this result it appears to me the wiki needs some
reorganization at this stage so that each Windows build section for a
platform refers to the testing PLplot section without including any details
of testing. That reorganization should get rid of many mentions of /dll
since that subdirectory no longer needs to be on the PATH for a simple
build/install without testing.

I plan to make the proposed reorganizational changes for the MinGW build
section and a new MinGW/MSYS build section once I have more experience with
those two platforms under Wine, and I hope you do the same for the other
Windows build sections as well.

Alan
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