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

[Orion P. <or...@co...>]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> PREFIX is my chosen install prefix (/usr/local/plplot in my case). If you
> --enable-f95, F77 must be set to whatever is appropriate for your 
> fortran 95
> compiler which was f95 in my particular case.  

   Compiling on Fedora Core Development I do not appear to need to 
specify F77=f95.  What problems did you see when you omitted it?  I 
don't see the extra "yes" after the "accepts -g" check, and no obvious 
errors.

> 
> After the build and install I did the usual test of compiling the installed
> examples and testing them:
> 
> cp -a $prefix/share/plplot5.6.1_RC1/examples/ /tmp/examples
> cd /tmp/examples
> make
> ./plplot-test.sh script
> 
> Spot checks of the resulting 162 (!) postscript files looked good, and a
> comprehensive check showed these postscript results were identical with
> previous ones.

Most of them look good, except:

Testing front-end python
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.6.1_RC1/test/../examples/python/x03", 
line 36, in
?
     import xw03
   File 
"/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.6.1_RC1/examples/python/xw03.py", line 
63, in ?
     main()
   File 
"/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.6.1_RC1/examples/python/xw03.py", line 
21, in main
     i.shape = (-1,1)
ValueError: can only specify one unknown dimension

Seen in xw03.py, 08, 09, 11, 15, 16, 18, 22

Also, I still got:

PASS: plplot-test.sh
==================
All 1 tests passed
==================

even with the above errors.


Finally, I guess I should have weighed in earlier on the debate about 
where to put the fortran .mod files earlier, but I'm not sure I'm happy 
about /usr/lib/fortran/modules/plplot.  Why so many subdirs?  Why not 
just /usr/lib/plplot?  The former makes for more work for distribution 
makers (who owns /usr/lib/fortran?).

Otherwise, everything looks great.  Good work everyone.

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