[Plplot-general] Installing plplot under AIX

[Don S. <sp...@or...>]

Hi,
I'm trying to compile plplot 5.0.4 on an IBM-SP running AIX.  If I 
edit the Makefile (in /plplot/tmp) to use the GCC compiler, 
everything works fine.  However, since IBM's xlc compiler makes 
faster code, I would rather use that.  Unfortunately, xlc stumbles 
over some parts of pstex.c which use characters such as #'s and 
backslashes in writing out postscript commands:

plplot-5.0.4> make
         cd tmp; make default
         xlc -fpic -c -qcpluscmt -qdbcs             -I. pstex.c
"pstex.c", line 47.43: 1506-186 (S) String literal must be ended 
before the end of line.
"pstex.c", line 48.1: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 48.2: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 48.3: 1506-276 (S) Syntax error: possible missing ')'?
"pstex.c", line 49.1: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 49.2: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 50.1: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 50.2: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 50.13: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 50.14: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.1: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.2: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.13: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.14: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.27: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.28: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.32: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.33: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.44: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 51.45: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.1: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.2: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.7: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.8: 1506-191 (E) The character \ is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.19: 1506-191 (E) The character # is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.21: 1506-191 (E) The character # is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.23: 1506-191 (E) The character # is not a valid C 
source character.
"pstex.c", line 52.25: 1506-191 (E) The character # is not a valid C 
source character.

etc.


The lines in pstex.c that xlc finds offensive are, for example:

   fprintf(fp,"\\begin{picture}(0,0)(0,0)%%
\\includegraphics[scale=1.,clip]{%s}%%
\\end{picture}%%
\\setlength{\\unitlength}{%fbp}%%
\\begingroup\\makeatletter\\ifx\\SetFigFont\\undefined%%
\\gdef\\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%%
\\reset@font\\fontsize{#1}{#2pt}%%
\\fontfamily{#3}\\fontseries{#4}\\fontshape{#5}%%
\\selectfont}%%
\\fi\\endgroup%%\n",



   fprintf(fp,"\\put(%d,%d){\\rotatebox{%.1f}{\\makebox(0,0)[%c%c]
{\\SetFigFont{%.1f}{12}",
      args->x, args->y, alpha, jst, ref, ft_ht);


   fprintf(fp,"%% Your text follows:
%s
}}}}", cptr);


Any idea what I need to do to make this acceptable to the xlc compiler?
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