[Plplot-general] Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 5.6.1 Release Candidate 1

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

hba...@ma... wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Release candidate #1 for PLplot 5.6.1 is now available for download at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915
>
> This is a *test* release for the final version of PLplot 5.6.1. If  
> you have the time & the inclination, please download it and let us  
> know if does/does not work on your system of choice.

Yesterday, working in my development tree, I found two problems on 
Cygwin and one on Windows:

Cygwin:
1. There is a problem with gfortran and shared libraries: I have to 
disable shared libraries to get the
    examples to build properly. I have reported the bug (you get 
messages about duplicate gfortran symbols
    during the link phase). But disabling the shared libraries makes the 
error go away. Unfortunate, but
    at least there is a workaround.

2. The auxiliary program plflt does not get built properly. I have 
stared at the generated makefile,
    but the rule to make plflt$(EXEEXT) from $plflt_OBJECTS is _not_ 
followed (all looks okay
    to me, but the program is being built directly).
    The very ugly workaround is:
    % make
    % gcc -o plflt plft.c -I../../include
    % ./plflt
    % make

    Can anyone have a look at this? (I added a line to define 
plflt_CFLAGS in Makefile.am
    but this did not solve the issue - of course it wouldn't: make takes 
a default rule rather
    than the rule it should take)

Windows:
3. The DLL version does not compile at the moment - changes in the API 
(plrgbhls, ...)
    that are not reflected in the stubs for the DLL version. The static 
version works splendidly.

I do not know when I will have time to solve issue 3 - maybe tomorrow. 
Issue 2 is really puzzling
Issue 1 is out of our control.

Regards,

Arjen