Re: [Plplot-general] Build documentation

[Alexis P. <ale...@ma...>]

Le 2013-11-15 11:21, Alan W. Irwin a écrit :
> On 2013-11-15 10:13+0100 Alexis Praga wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alan,
>> 
>> I successfully built and installed the latest SVN (revision 12702). As 
>> a reference,
>> I have include the output of plplot-test.sh in share/examples, which 
>> looks OK
>> to me (only warnings).
>> Also, I consider it verbose enough for a normal install, even though 
>> the verbosity
>> would be more interesting had the build/install failed.
>> 
>> Finally, this version was validated by an install of PerlDL (and all 
>> of its testing
>> suite) and some plotting I did with it.
> 
> Hi Alexis:
> 
> I agree that the plplot-test.sh.out results are OK (and will be
> considerably cleaned up if you install development packages for
> shapelib and qhull. I assume official rpms of those are available on
> Fedora.) If you want to do even more extensive testing of PLplot, run
> 
> make VERBOSE=1 -j4 test_noninteractive >& test_noninteractive.out
> 
> and
> 
> make VERBOSE=1 -j4 test_interactive >& test_interactive.out
> 
> in the build tree and also after you run "make install", run those
> same targets for the separate CMake-based build system that we install
> along with the installed examples.  You configure that separate build
> system by running cmake pointing to the installed examples top-level
> source-tree directory at $prefix/share/plplot$version/examples. Be
> sure to run that from a separate build tree so it does not interfere
> with another separate build system for the installed examples that is
> based on Makefiles and pkg-config.  But that traditional build system
> is not as powerful as the CMake-based one.
> 
> The above non-interactive tests will generate something roughly like
> 3GB of plot files, and the above interactive tests will produce many
> plots on your screen (mostly in non-pause mode so you don't have to
> hit the enter key that much to keep them moving along).  Of course, it
> is essential to capture the VERBOSE=1 results in the above *.out files
> in case there are any errors.
> 
> Your good results for the current svn trunk version are not only good
> news from your perspective but also from our perspective since we plan
> to do a release of PLplot fairly soon (near the end of the year) based
> on the svn trunk version.  No more two-year waits between PLplot
> releases! I can say that because that unprecedented delay between
> 5.9.9 and 5.9.10 was caused by our extensive search for a release
> manager volunteer who finally turned out (much to my surprise) to be
> me.  :-) I am really looking forward to releasing 5.9.11 soon since
> svn trunk is looking pretty good.  Also, that release should be much
> easier for me than the release of 5.9.10 due to my gained experience
> and the much shorter release cycle.
> 
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
> 
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> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
> 
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Alan,

At the moment, I'm only testing PLplot on a Fedora machine that is not 
my personnal computer.
Therefore, I prefer not to install too many dependencies, as long as it 
works.

As for the tests, I could not figure how to run both interactive and 
non-interactive in the build tree
prior to the install. The Makefile clearly mentionned the targets were 
to be run in the install folder
and not the build tree. Which is why I ran the examples in the install 
directory
(in $prefix/share/plplot$version/examples).
Was that what you wanted ? Otherwise, I'm sorry but could explain more 
the different steps ?

I also ran the tests in the separated build directory with the installed 
examples. However, after running the interactive
tests (and pressed "Enter" quite a few times), I was stuck with two 
plots which I had to close, thus producing
an error in the output files (attached to this mail).

Does that help you ?

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Alexis Praga
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