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

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

On 2006-05-22 16:57-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin writes:
> > Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > 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?).
> >
> > At this point, I don't think the Linux community has really come to grips
> > with this fortran 95 install location issue since it is only recently that
> > libre fortran 95 compilers (gfortran and g95) became viable solutions. The
> > fortran part of the above install location was recommended in a generic
> > way by someone on the Linux File Hierarchy Standards list, but that is
> > certainly not an official decision and they may change their minds
> > later. The modules part of it was my invention to be more informative, but
> > if that turns out to be a major problem we can certainly move to
> > /usr/lib/fortran/plplot in the future or anything else that finally
> > becomes officially recommended by the LFHS group.  For now, though, I
> > think we should just stick with what we have.
>
> ???  Maybe I put my foot in the wrong place on that.  I thought I had
> registered support for putting the Fortran modules under the $prefix.

Correction: By default it goes under $prefix/lib/fortran/modules/plplot
(which translates to what Orion and I said above for prefix = /usr).  So
you have full control of the prefix with the --prefix configure option.

However, there are a lot more possibilities then this prefix default which
you can check out by looking at the libdir (and other *dir) documentation
using ./configure --help.  I have checked that --libdir actually works for
PLplot.  As I said when I commented on that good result before, Geoffrey,
your disambiguation problems are probably over if you use some of those *dir
configure options.

Alan
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