[Plplot-general] Re: debian plplot & octave-plplot-0.3

[Christophe T. <deb...@ti...>]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, João Cardoso <jc...@fe...> wrote:
> 
> Rafael & David, does the debian octave-plplot-0.3 package still
> makes sense? Specially if it is outdated?

Well, if I may say my opinion, you do not want the plplot package to
depend on octave, so it is good to keep octave related stuff in a
separate package.

Talking about the Debian packages, « plplot-tcl » which is supposed to
contain the tk driver does not.  I can see that a version of the lib
with the tk driver enabled is compiled but for some reason does not
end up in the package.  Also, are they reasons why the debian package
is not compiled with
	--with-double 	(if there are no issues with speed, are there??)
	--enable-png 	(couldn't make it to work)

A plplot-examples package would be nice.

BTW, there are some problems when compiling plplot-5.2.0 with the
option --with-double, make ends with the message:

	...
	make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dg300d.lo', needed by `libplplotdrv.la'.  Stop.
	make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/PLPLOT/plplot-5.2.0/drivers'
	make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


Finally, if I issue « xhost +local: », the Tk driver crashes with:

	X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
	    while executing
	"send $client "set server_name [list $server_name]""
	    (procedure "plserver_link_init" line 25)
	    invoked from within
	"plserver_link_init"
	    (procedure "plserver_init" line 85)
	    invoked from within
	"plserver_init"

Why?  (There is no problem with the xwin driver.)

Cheers,
ChriS