Re: [Plplot-devel] Building fails with Lua version > 5.1

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

On 2012-02-16 11:46-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> [....]So one possibility to deal with this is simply to replace all math.mod
> in the several examples where that occurs with math.fmod.  However,
> another alternative is to use the lua % operator (which takes the
> remainder relative to minus infinity rather than zero as in the
> math.fmod case).  If we are always dealing with positive values using
> the % operator might be a better alternative than math.fmod.
>
> Anyhow, let me test the math.fmod and % possibilities for all our lua
> examples in the next little while, and I will get back to you.

In the end (revision 12167) I decided to change to the % operator and
the results passed the test_diff_psc test (i.e., were the same as
the corresponding C examples) for my Lua-5.1 platform.

So Atri, please try the test_lua_psc target again with this revision
from svn trunk. I hope you will be able to get a lot further into the
examples or maybe even complete them!

Alan
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