Re: [Plplot-general] Build documentation

[Alexis P. <ale...@ma...>]

Le 2013-11-17 02:11, Alan W. Irwin a écrit :
> On 2013-11-15 16:32-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-11-15 14:34-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> 
>>> If you trigger the segfault, but we cannot spot anything wrong in
>>> those files, I already have some ideas about continuing this segfault
>>> chase by narrowing down the test even more leading eventually to a
>>> simplest possible example of the problem that we can then analyze 
>>> with
>>> valgrind on your platform and also on ours.
>>> 
>>> Thanks very much for reporting this segfault issue in the first 
>>> place.
>>> They are the very bugger to track down (since the memory management
>>> issue that is typically the cause, may be symptomless on other
>>> platforms except for valgrind warnings).  I hope you will stick with
>>> us (probably for several more iterations) until we have it nailed.
>> 
>> Hi Alexis:
>> 
>> Never mind.  The whole point of those detailed instructions was to
>> figure out why you were getting the segfault, and I was not.  But
>> something changed from yesterday until today for me (I am not sure
>> what), and now I see that segfault as well.  So I can take it
>> from here and will let you know when I have that solved.
> 
> This turns out to be a tough issue which I have had to hand off to
> those with a lot more Tcl/Tk expertise than me (see discussion on the
> plplot-devel list).  The upshot is that the
> test_wish_standard_examples target (the one that segfaults at the very
> end of all the examples in the process of exiting) has been
> (temporarily until the segfault is fixed) taken off the list of
> targets that are run by the test_interactive target.  I have also
> fixed some Tcl-related build-system issues in the installed examples
> tree.  The result is now (revision 12710) I can run "make
> test_interactive" for either the core build system or the installed
> examples build system without encountering any errors, and I hope that
> is the case for you as well on your Fedora platform.
> 
> Alan
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> Alan W. Irwin
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Hi Alan,

I can confirm the test suite works on my machine, both in the build tree 
and
  in the installed directory, for the latest (rev. 12710) version.


Cheers,

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Alexis Praga
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