Re: [Plplot-general] plplot compile errors

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2005-07-07 11:38-0400 Vinod Gupta wrote:

> Sure, the stdout and stderr output of configure and make are attached in two 
> files.
> I did not use any command line options for configure or make.
>
> Vinod

Thanks, Vinod, for that full information.  You have found a bug in our gcw.c
device driver. To work around it, turn off the gcw device by using the
configure option --disable-gcw.  (BTW, you should probably also specify the
./configure --prefix=whatever option.  See "./configure --help" for more
information.)

To the developers lurking on list.  I replicated the bug by the following
combination of ./configure options (a corner case Vinod tripped over because
he didn't have certain fonts installed.)

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/plplot --disable-static --without-freetype

Tom, I recall similar errors with ps.c in the past, but I cannot recall how
we fixed it.  I think we had to change the ps configuration, some
conditional compilation flags, or we may have had to move some code to a
better file location that was not affected by #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE.

I also tried the additional --disable-gcw option above to make sure ps.c
worked with the --without-freetype option, and it does. So Tom, if for gcw.c
you follow what is done for the ps.c case for font lookup functions, you
should be all right.

Alan
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