Re: [Plplot-devel] New CVS distribution tarball available

[Alan W. I. <ai...@us...>]

On 2004-01-04 22:41-0500 Koen van der Drift wrote:

>
> On Jan 4, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > As far as I am aware all other CVS issues we have discussed in the
> > last few
> > weeks have been dealt with.  I would strongly encourage our Mac OS X
> > testers
> > to explore everything all over again with the latest snapshot.  Some
> > of the
> > roadblocks they ran into before (such as -dev tk) may now be gone.
> >
>
> [...]first impressions in telegram style
>
> - compiling with fortran fails,

fink g77 3.4 is somewhat problematic at this time, but I think Michel found
some workarounds to make it work before so I think those will be necessary
until the fink g77 3.4 problems are resolved.  Note this time we have
reintroduced AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS which adds additional link flags that we
are told by the documentation are supposed to facilitate allowing most Unix
platforms to link the mixed C and fortran library libplplotf77. However, if
I recall correctly the one time Michel tried the results of
AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, the additional flags were nothing but trouble (and
Rafael had trouble with them as well on Debian unstable g77 3.3 until a gcc
3.3 patch was applied).  Hopefully, Michel will be able to find a workaround
for the present case that Koen can use.

Because of the troubles we have encountered, we should also not just rely on
the documentation that AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS is supposed to work. In
addition we should test that it works on as many Unix fortran platforms as
possible. The SF compile farm is supposed to have a sparc8 processor
available so I may try that in the next few days if they have the fortran
compiler installed.  Joao, will you try fortran on your OSF1 platform using
the latest tarball?


> but compiling with dyndrivers succeeds.

Its great to here the continued good news about dyndrivers.

>
> - examples compile 'out of the box'.

Excellent.

> "-dev tk" still fails

Thanks for trying.  I did some reconfiguring in the tcl/tk area, but
obviously it is not enough, and we probably have to write-off tcl/tk on Unix
platforms other than Linux until we get some decent cross-Unix platform
configuration tools for tcl/tk (probably post-release unless somebody has
a brainstorm about what to do).

>
>
> I will try to find some more time to test this week.
>

Thanks very much for all your testing and fink packaging efforts.  Your
and Michel's feedback has been most important in helping us to build a
more robust PLplot.

Alan
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