Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: help install plplot

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

On 2005-06-30 00:07+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2005-06-29 09:45]:
>> Is this perl bug really that intricate?  The "unrecognized type" message
>> comes from the canonicalize_type function in the matwrap perl script which
>> appears to be well documented and rather short.  Can you not isolate the cpp
>> output string that is currently causing the failure and make a test case
>> that feeds that string to to canonicalize_type with lots of extra output
>> messages to quickly solve the problem of what is going wrong with the
>> canonicalize_type parsing logic for this corner case?  Such old-fashioned
>> debugging methods (isolate the problem, dump all variables, and follow the
>> logic) are amazingly effective so if I had any perl knowledge, that would be
>> the first step I would try to solve this issue.
>
> I already investigated the problem more or less along the lines that you
> propose.

As usual, I should have known you would be way ahead of me.  :-)

> I think that the problem is beyond the canonicalize_type
> subroutine, more specifically in the way the cpp output is parsed and the
> information stored into the matwrap internal structures.  I will need lots
> of time to understand better how matwrap works.  For now, it is quite a
> black box for me.

Too bad it is so complicated, and I wish you the best in figuring out
what the problem is.

Alan
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