From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-11-05 01:18:31
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Warning: it appears swig 1.3.22 is backwards incompatible with previous versions of swig and also our current cvs version of PLplot. 1.3.22 has been out now since 2004-09-03 and has propagated, for example to Debian testing. The symptom you will see if you attempt to build PLplot from raw cvs with this latest swig version is the plplotcmodule_double.c source file will have lots of compilation errors. (My compilations never reached to the java stage so I don't know whether there would be additional errors in that case as well for swig-1.3.22.) The workaround is to stick strictly with swig-1.3.21 until one of us has a chance to find what is incompatible with the new swig version and fix it. I am the obvious "volunteer" to fix this, but I am busy doing other things at the moment so this complete fix is going to be delayed quite a while (probably months) unless somebody else steps forward. Meanwhile, the workaround of continuing to use swig-1.3.21 should not be a major difficulty for anybody since it is available from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1645 if your Linux distribution does not have this exact version. Note this note is relevant only for those who build from our raw cvs version. Rafael has been careful to build our latest cvs snapshot tarball that is available at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/cvs-tarball/ using swig-1.3.21 so there are no problems in that case. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |