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

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan, Irena,



I will make these changes - they should have no impact, except keep that version of the PG compiler happy, but at the moment I am trying to make sure my laptop stays alive :(. It was not starting up correctly - possibly a hard disk problem.



Regards,



Arjen




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:15 PM
> To: Irena Johnson
> Cc: Arjen Markus; plp...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] continuation lines in bindings/tcl/plplot_parameters.h
>
> 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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>
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