Re: [Plplot-general] PLPLOT installation...

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ron Ghosh wrote:
 > >    The font files did not appear to be buildable with
 > >    make fonts, and I more or less hand built these;
 > >    it was also necessary to specify the libplplot.so
 > >    in the gcc command - although I had done a make install.
 > 
 > We distribute the font files as part of the distribution, and I suggest you
 > use them as is without trying to rebuild them.  It's been literally years
 > since any of us have looked at rebuilding the font files so undoubtedly
 > bit-rot has set in.  That said, any of our users should be able to rebuild
 > them if they want so I will put this on my ToDo list to figure out what the
 > trouble is.

Now fixed in the latest CVS version.

 > > 4. My next challenge is SGI-IRIX, then alas Windows!
 > 
 > For any variant of Unix such as IRIX be sure an install and use the Gnu
 > version of Make since the PLplot build depends on it.  I won't be able to
 > help you with the windows build and install (no windows experience), but
 > other PLplot developers on this list have made it work for them so they
 > should be able to help you out.

I've had no problems with plplot on: IRIX Release 6.5.14 Origin3800.  Use it
all the time there, it's a nice system.  As Alan said, you'll need to compile
GNU make although on the IRIX system I use there's a dir /usr/gnu/bin that has
this along with many other GNU tools (dunno if it comes with the OS tho).
I've compiled numerous GNU packages under IRIX w/o problems.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)