Re: [Plplot-devel] Building fails with Lua version > 5.1

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

On 2012-02-17 23:52+0530 Atri wrote:

> Finally, with these modifications, and the examples corrected as in the
> latest revision, the 'make test_lua_psc' passes wonderfully, i.e. not
> only does it pass, but it creates ps files of plots that look fine. I
> found that the ps files created using the c++ examples and using lua 5.2
> looked identical. I interpret that to mean plplot works just great with
> lua 5.2 as well \o/
>
> Do you want me to submit the ps files or something so you could verify?

Hi Atri:

Please run the "test_diff_psc" target to verify in detail what you
have visually observed above.  What this test does is automatically
compare PostScript results from C standard examples with those same
examples implemented in all our supported languages (including lua).

Here are the lua-5.1 results of that test on my system:

lua
   Missing examples            :  00
   Differing postscript output :
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            :

which shows standard example 00 missing for lua, but for all other
30+ standard examples, lua and C results are the same.

In fact, I would recommend running the test_diff_psc target or better
yet the test_noninteractive target (which depends on test_diff_psc and
also a few other smaller non-interactive test targets) for anyone
interested in comprehensively checking their PLplot build.

>
> Thanks a lot for all the really nice help. Please let me know if there
> is something more I need to do about this.

You are welcome, and my thanks to you as well for pioneering lua 5.2
for us.

To complete this work I plan to update our build system to incorporate
all the changes you have shown are required to get lua 5.2 to work,
(with the added feature that I will use the lua -v command to
determine which version of lua is installed so we don't have to keep
maintaining version number lists).  Once that works for me here with
lua-5.1, I will ask you to do one further test of that unpatched updated build
system there to make sure it continues to work for lua-5.2.

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

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software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
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