Re: [Plplot-general] funky installation problem

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

hv...@i-... writes:
 > 1. I installed tcl and tk with --prefix=/foo where foo is my home
 > 
 > 7. run ./configure --prefix=/foo/plplot --disable-itcl --disable-f77
 > 
 > 9. Here comes more ignorance on my part: the build will create plserver,
 > for example, so you can run plserver and get an initial wishx window.
 > But if you do a plxframe creation, you core dump.
 > 
 > So a bit of ldd work reveals that resultant plserver (and maybe other
 > targets) built with dependency on libtcl.so in default (8.0!) directory.
 > Don't want that. So I make (here we go...) symlinks in the plserver
 > directory to respective libtcl8.3.so, etc in private copy of 8.3 tcl/tk.
 > Now it works.
 > 
 > So there is my silliness: I can build and run using this kl00ge, but
 > can I do it a bit cleaner, especially wrt ldd noted lib dependencies at
 > run or, preferably, compile-time?

If you configure plplot with the wrong prefix, it won't find the right
libs.  Alan mentioned all those env vars, but I haven't used them, so
can't comment on that pathway.  Here's what I recommend:

configure tcl --prefix=/foo; make; make install
configure tk  --prefix=/foo; make; make install
configure plplot  --prefix=/foo; make; make install

I think it will work, and be much simpler in this case.

Not sure about how the tclindex stuff will work in this case.  To be
safe, I'd probably put /foo/bin early in my path.

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Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...