Re: [Plplot-general] Independence of executables from build platform

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Eldred wrote:

> As it is not practical to build the DAKOTA application from
> scratch on every platform where we'd like to run, we'd prefer
> to be able to distribute executables without this type of
> dependency.

Since you are talking common executables, you must have the same platform
everywhere.  I suggest configuring plplot-5.2.0 with a unique prefix (e.g.,
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/plplot), then make; make install.  That last
step will put everything you need (fonts, drivers, etc.) into
/usr/local/plplot.  All you have to do after that is make a tarball of
everything in that tree and copy the tree to all your platforms. This
solution assumes you have the same system libraries installed in the same
positions on every platform.

If you want to get a bit fancier, and your platform is a Linux one, then you
can build an rpm instead.  This has already been done for you for RH 7.3.
See resources on http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources/ for the link. That
page also says where you can get the latest developmental tarball and Debian
packages as well.

BTW, use ./configure --help to see what the options are.  For example, by
default you will build both shared and static libraries.  If you don't want
the shared libraries just specify --disable-shared.

One notorious configuration bug to watch out for in plplot-5.2.0 ---  the
combination of static drivers and double precision does not work.  This
configuration bug has been fixed in the cvs version and the developmental
tarball that is derived from the cvs version.

Also, stay tuned here for PLplot news.  In April we plan to make our next
release (with configuration superbly debugged, refined, and polished mostly
by Rafael Laboissiere's hard work), and you will first hear all the
details right here.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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