Re: [Plplot-general] plplot compile errors

[Vinod G. <vi...@Pr...>]

On 07/07/2005 12:37 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> 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
> __________________________


Thanks Alan. Now make works but make install returns a couple of errors. 
make-install.out is attached.

Vinod