Re: [Plplot-general] plplot and mac os x

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

On 2003-12-26 08:10-0500 Koen van der Drift wrote:

>
> On Dec 25, 2003, at 2:55 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > I am sorry everything is in a bit of disarray with Mac OS X and
> > PLplot, but
> > we all three of Mac OS X, autotools, and PLplot are rapidly moving
> > targets.
> > Also, bug fixing is slow because no PLplot developer has direct Mac OS
> > X
> > access, and we must rely on indirect actions of users to help us debug
> > for
> > that platform as a consequence.
>
> I'll be glad to help - just don't have much time and resources
> (knowledge).
>
>
> > In actual truth none of the above are needed.  For example, if all the
> > above
> > are disabled, you could (theoretically, I haven't tried this myself)
> > still
> > run any of the C examples from the command line using -dev psc (our
> > coloured
> > postscript device) or -dev ps
>
>
> I tried this, but didn;t get it to work, due to my experience with the
> command line (I don't have a unix but rather a Mac GUI background :).
> What is the correct syntax to run the c examples from the command line?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> - Koen.
>

Here is the detailed cookbook.  After make install, do the following to
build the examples:

cd /tmp (or any other directory accessible to you as an ordinary user)

copy the installed examples tree (the trailing period is important):

cp -a $prefix/lib/plplot$version/examples .

go into the C examples directory and build those examples:

cd examples/c
make x01c  (or drop the x01c from the command to build all C examples)

Then in that same directory to execute the built example:

./x01c -dev psc -o temp.ps

which creates the result file temp.ps containing the coloured postscript
plot of our example 1.

BTW, you could help us out a lot (assuming you have MacOS X 10.3) to try the
latest cvs snapshot version Rafael just announced.  We need confirmation of
a report from one user that he could not even configure the cvs version of
Plplot with 10.3.  Please use an install tree (e.g.,
--prefix=/tmp/plplot_cvs) completely independent of your 5.2.1 install
tree/.  You will have to put $prefix/bin first on your path so that e.g.,

which plplot_libtool

gives you the correct version from your cvs snapshot plplot build and install.

Alan
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