Re: [Plplot-general] First release candidate (rc1) for PLplot 5.3.0 available

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Monday 19 January 2004 22:36, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| The first release candidate tarball for the forthcoming 5.3.0 release
| of PLplot is available at:
|
|     http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html
|
| and also as a File Release at SourceForge.
|
| The tarball name is plplot-5.2.1.rc1.5.3.0.tar.gz.  The main
| user-visible changes since the last cvs test tarball
| (5.2.1.cvs.20040115) regard improvements in the configuration support
| for MacOS X.  We hope that all the remaining issues on MacOS X are
| addressed in this tarball.
|
| As usual, Debian packages for unstable (a.k.a. sid) have been
| uploaded.
|
| Please test & report.

On an alpha OSF1-4.0, with gcc-3.0.3, it configured/run almost OK.

Some problems:
isinf/isnan not detected during configure
pthreads  not detected during configure

configure:28085: result: no
configure:28095: checking for isnan
configure:28152: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -mieee   conftest.c  >&5
/bin/ld:
Unresolved:
isnan
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Compiling the test program with -lm solves the problem

examples/c++/x01 compilation fails:
    x01.cc:278: `usleep' undeclared (first use this function)
this was already reported and a solution searched, but none appeared

examples/x20 fails (in the build dir, didn't tried install):
   No such file - aborting
as lena.pgm was (of course) not found

examples/x18f the 5 and following pages aren't equal to the 
corresponding c examples, only a circle is ploted at the base xy plane

The installed Octave is very old and pluggins are not compilable -- this 
is not PLplot fault.

Configuring with the native fortran compiler fails at bindings/f77

f90: Error: configurable.f, line 35: This name does not have a type, and 
must have an explicit type.   [IARGC]
      numargs = iargc()
----------------^

The native fortran compiler was working in the previous release, so this 
is a step-back.

Joao