Re: [Plplot-general] Compiling against the Fortran77 libraries in PLPlot 5.10.0

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

On 2014-05-17 18:44-0700 David Ventimiglia wrote:

[out of order]
> On my system I also see that there now is
> a libplplot-fortran11 package whose description says:
>
> This package contains the Fortran 77 and Fortran 95 bindings for
>> PLplot. Note: the Fortran 77 bindings have been deprecated in the latest
>> version of PLplot, and will be dropped from a future release. New code
>> should use the Fortran 95 bindings.

That description is outdated by two releases.  Updating that is
the Debian/Ubuntu packager's responsibility.

> Have the Fortran77 libraries actually been completely
> purged?

Yes, actually for a prior release (5.9.11).

> How do I compile Fortran77 programs against PLPlot now that the Fortran77
> libraries have finally been removed from libplplot-dev (I'm on Ubuntu, so
> this is a Debian style package)?

I am pretty sure all you have to do is insert a "use plplot" statement
in your old fortran code, but others here may have a better answer.

> But, within it there are only shared-object libraries and no longer any
> static libraries, which were very convenient.

The question of packaging the static libraries is a Debian/Ubuntu
packaging question which I cannot answer.

Alan

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