Re: [Plplot-general] continuation lines in bindings/tcl/plplot_parameters.h

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

To Arjen and Irena:

On 2014-08-27 10:41-0400 Irena Johnson wrote:

> Hi Arjen,
>
> Yes, this worked! I was now able to compile and install plplot for
> pgf-13.6. Thank you very much for your help!

@Arjen: Please go ahead and push your workaround to the master
branch of our git repository with a code comment that splitting up the
module and subroutine this way is required to work around a pgf-13.6
bug.  After all, that is a rather minor change, and others may want to
use this version of the Portland Group compilers as well without
having to upgrade to Davide's version 13.10.

@Irena: that is excellent news indeed that Arjen's workaround solved
the remaining build issue for you.  However, from Davide's results
(where version 13.10 does not need this workaround) it sounds like the
Portland Group version 13.6 compilers are a little iffy. Therefore I
suggest to gain some confidence in results for those that you do some
comprehensive run-time tests.  (You should run these tests
every time you are using a new compiler or new compiler version.)

The comprehensive test directions (I go into detail since they are
suitable for anyone here who wants to test all is well with their
PLplot build) are as follows:

Add the cmake command-line option -DBUILD_TEST=ON which instructs
cmake to configure many build-tree run-time tests.

After cmake completes then run

make -j4 VERBOSE=1 test_noninteractive >& test_noninteractive.out

which builds and runs each of our 33 standard examples for all
languages that are enabled plus a number of additional noninteractive
tests.

N.B. My high-quality but still 5-yr old PC takes ~8 minutes to
run this test and produces some 4GB (!) of output plot files.

You should check the resulting test_noninteractive.out file for any
run-time errors.  (I just did that which confirms that our current git
master version is working well.) And you can also sample some of those
resulting PostScript files using gv, For example,

gv --orientation=landscape examples/test_examples_output_dir/x08f95.psc

views the PostScript results of our 8th standard example written
in Fortran 95.

An additional test that you should run is

make -j4 VERBOSE=1 test_interactive >& test_interactive.out

which tests all our interactive devices for our standard examples as
well as many other interactive tests.  Unlike the test_noninteractive
target, this target does not have to store plot results so does not
chew up disk space.  But you do have to interact with a number of
those examples (typically by hitting the enter key) to keep them
moving along.  When you finish with this test, you should also check
test_interactive.out for any run-time errors.

Good luck with these essential comprehensive run-time tests, and
please report back here if the resulting *.out files show any issues.

Alan
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