Re: [Plplot-devel] Solaris xwin.c fix

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > (1) We have sunos users with this problem as well.  I haven't looked at your
 > cvs commits yet, but if you are detecting solaris at the configuration stage
 > (rather than simply having a user option), then you may want to detect sunos
 > as well.

Yeah, turns out I did need to generalize that, thanks.

 > (2) I have one report that with the old (5.0.4) code on sunos, there was an
 > interesting workaround.  If this user called plParseOpts (indirectly through
 > the yorick front-end, but I just checked the yplot code, and this is the
 > only result of the yplot command he used) the xwin problem disappeared. If a
 > call to plParseOpts solves the problem, perhaps that call is initializing
 > things properly on sunos (and solaris?)?  That might give us a clue how to
 > do the initialization properly in general for those systems so we would no
 > longer need to specify default values in xwin.c for those systems.

Ugh.  Sounds really strange.. no idea what could be happening.  I'd have to
have my hands on such a system to figure things out.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...