Re: [Plplot-general] PLplot on OSX and wxwidgets

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

On 2008-01-22 14:12-0800 ka...@en... wrote:

> Hi All,

Hi Ty:

Glad to see you are finally able to post to one of our lists after some
auto-bouncing.

> 1) During the installation I tried to install PLplot into it's own
> directory in /usr/local using '--Prefix=/usr/local/PLplot' during cmake.
> However, this didn't install it into PLplot, but rather the default
> location which I assume is /usr/local.  Will this be a problem? (I read in
> the README file that it was recommended to put PLplot in its own
> directory).  For installation I followed the instructions from the wiki
> (http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Mac_OSX).

That Mac OS X part of our wiki is just a supplement to our generic Unix
instructions at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki.  Read/follow the
generic instructions first, then look at the Mac OS X part of our wiki for
any additional comments.  In particular the generic instructions give you an
example of how to set the installation prefix, and you have not followed
those. Thus, you currently do have a default install location of /usr/local
so I would advise starting over with clean source tree and empty build tree.
Note, setting the installation prefix has no effect until you type the "make
install" command so if you haven't typed that command yet, you won't have to
clean out /usr/local/.

>
> 2) After the installation I tried to run the example files but I don't know
> how.  There is an example folder in /path/to/PLplot/directory as well as in
> the folder I created for the build plplot-build which is in
> /path/to/PLplot/directory.  If I enter the example folder in the PLplot
> directory and type 'make' it says makefile can't be found (there are
> makefiles but end in *.in, *.am, and *.example).  If I enter the example
> folder in plplot-build the 'make' command executes but no executable files
> are added.  How can I test that the installation worked?

Look for the heading "Post-cmake build, install, and build-tree and
install-tree tests" in our generic instructions, where I believe you
will find the answer to your question.

Good luck with PLplot, and don't hesistate to post here again if you run
into any other difficulty with PLplot.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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