Re: [Plplot-general] PLPlot install issue

[Alan W. I. <ai...@us...>]

On 2003-11-12 23:14+0800 Valery Pipin wrote:

> on Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:17 AW wrote:
> <snipped>
> >file releases.) The reason that our rpm's are poorly supported is I don't
> >have access to newer rpm-based distributions, and no other PLplot developer
> >has shown interest in building rpm's.
> >
> >Given our poor support for rpm's I suggest you continue to try to make the
> >tarball approach work.
> I've built the plpot rpm with octave and python support for the recent
> plpot distribution. The built was gone without problems. My mashine is working
> under sisyphus.  Unfortunately I have no public place to put the src.rpm,
> rigth now. I could send you the spec file.

That "poorly supported" remark I made above only refers to newer distro
versions.  In contrast I would characterize RedHat 7.3 (the rpm-based
distribution I have access to) as well supported.

For example, there is a working specfile for RedHat 7.3 in the latest
snapshot tarballs at http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html.  Look for
rpm/plplot_redhat7.3.spec.  That worked well on the September 15th snapshot,
and I see no reason why it will not continue to work well for the
combination of later cvs snapshots and RedHat 7.3 (although you will have to
change the line

%define version 5.2.1.cvs.20030915

to

%define version 5.2.1.cvs.20031030

in the specfile to be consistent with the dated version that is currently
available as the latest cvs snapshot.)

It's important to start with plplot_redhat7.3.spec (modified as above) in
the latest snapshot because it is completely consistent with all the changes
since 5.2.1, and it supports virtually everything that is PLplot default
except the linuxvga driver and java (AFAIK not officially available for
RH7.3). Note, however, that specfile will likely need some minor adjustments
to make it compatible with non-RH 7.3 Linux systems such as those of Valery.
For example, if you are missing some key development packages on your
rpm-based system, the configuration, make, and make install parts will
adjust fine by themselves with no changes required, but you will have to
comment out the appropriate lines in the file list area of the specfile for
the parts of plplot that are not built and installed because of the lack
of appropriate development packages.

Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

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

Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________