[Plplot-general] Re: I got a working plpot on Mac OS X 10.3

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

On 2003-12-21 18:54+0100 Michel Peyrard wrote:

>
>  Dear Alan,
>
> I finally got a working version of plplot on Mac OS X 10.3 with the
> tarfile 5.2.1, using --disable-shared and --disable-dyndrivers. Without
> any one of these options the compilation fails.
>
> The problem I had with undefined "restFP" and "saveFP" when compiling
> plplot fortran programs has been solved by a web search. The programs have
> to be linked with /usr/lib/libgcc.a and /usr/lib/libcc_dynamic.a
> (i.e. I must add -lgcc and -lcc_dynamic to my g77 compilation command)
>
> This solution is certainly not the best but it works on Mac OS X 10.3,
> with fortran, and this is really useful for me.

I am glad you have found a workaround for now.

Nevertheless, that leaves at least 3 PLplot problems to deal with for Mac OS
X 10.3 which I hope we will be able to sort out before our next release.

* The ./configure error you have with the latest cvs snapshots.

* The above linking problem for fortran.  I believe I have the solution to
this as discussed on plplot_devel.

* The ./get-drv-info error (Rob Managan also ran into this for an older Mac
OS X version).  The solution of this problem should allow you to drop the
--disable-dyndrivers limitation for Mac OS X.

I don't have the expertise to help with the first and 3rd problems, but I
hope others will be able to step in with some help.

Alan
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