Re: [Plplot-general] Problem compiling plplot-5.2.1

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

On 2003-12-04 14:25-0500 James B. Hiller wrote:

> The last problem that I'm having (though it doesn't prohibit the build)
> is that configure seems to not be finding my python (2.3.2) installation.

You can override everything python related.

For example, I believe the following should work for you:

PY_VERSION=`python -c 'import sys ; print sys.version[0:3]'`
export PYTHON_INC_DIR=/usr/local/include/python${PY_VERSION}/

./configure ....

> I found the sysloc.in file, and the list of directories to look
> in, and added python2.3 to that list.  Also no help.

hmmm.  That should work, but that method requires that you have all the
correct autotools versions installed.

If the export trick above does not work, do you have the correct Numeric for
your python version installed as well?  (See below for where to get it.)

> Is this a case where python-2.3.2 is simply too new for the current
> version of plplot to deal with?

My experience is we have had to make virtually no changes from
python-1.5/Numeric-15 on since both the python and numeric teams are so
careful to keep things backwards compatible.  So I doubt python-2.3 or
Numeric-2 (which you can find as Numeric-23.1.tar.gz at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369) are going to be
a problem.  I haven't tried python-2.3 myself, but IIRC, plplot builds fine
on Debian unstable with python2.3.

Alan
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