Re: [Plplot-devel] Current ctest compare results

[Doug H. <dh...@ma...>]

Hi Alan:  I would like to help with these test cases, but I'm currently 
swamped.  I'll see what I can do over the next 2 months.

Regards,

   Doug Hunt

dh...@uc...
Software Engineer III
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Hi Doug:
>
> I am addressing this mostly to you because you are our perl/pdl expert.
> However, for the others here I also have a Tcl question below.
>
> Here are the "ctest -R compare" results I have obtained recently
> (using -DBUILD_TEST=ON -DENABLE_pdl=ON)
> c++
>   Missing examples   :
>   Differing examples :
> f77
>   Missing examples   :
>   Differing examples :
> f95
>   Missing examples   :
>   Differing examples :
> octave
>   Missing examples   :  19
>   Differing examples :
> python
>   Missing examples   :  19
>   Differing examples :
> tcl
>   Missing examples   :  19
>   Differing examples :  11 13 15 16 20
> perl
>   Missing examples   :  27 28 29 30
>   Differing examples :  02 08 20 21 23
> ada
>   Missing examples   :
>   Differing examples :
> ocaml
>   Missing examples   :
>   Differing examples :
>
> The clean Ada result (a first for me) is due to Jerry's recent example 19 fix.
>
> My understanding is there are plans to add example 19 for both octave and
> python.  That would give us seven language bindings in exact agreement with
> the C results for all standard examples which would be an outstanding
> result.
>
> Question for the Tcl experts here. Are those differing examples due to the
> string ==> float rounding issues with Tcl or are there deeper concerns?
>
> This leaves the perl/pdl language binding.  Doug, would you be willing
> to programme the remainder of the standard examples and make sure
> the pdl interface to PLplot is complete?
>
> ctest -R perl has an example 20 issue which need to be addressed.  Here was
> the error message (for the 1:2.4.3-6+b1 version of the pdl package from
> Debian testing).
>
> *** PLPLOT WARNING ***
> plParseOpts: function deprecated. Use plparseopts instead
> perl: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/perl5/auto/PDL/Graphics/PLplot/PLplot.so: undefined symbol: plimage
>
> I tried a local change to the preferred plparseopts for one of the examples,
> but I then got this message:
>
> Undefined subroutine &main::plparseopts called at
> /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/plplot_cmake/examples/perl/x01.pl line 93.
>
> Doug, assuming my version 1:2.4.3-6+b1 of perl/pdl contains your latest
> PLplot interface work it appears both plparseopts and plimage are not
> defined within pdl, and I expect if you check all the c_.... definitions in
> include/plplot.h you will find other components of the PLplot public API
> which are currently missing from pdl and which will be needed to fill out
> the remaining standard examples that have not been implemented yet.
>
> Alan
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