Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release (pkgIndex.tcl concatenation logic bug?)

[Phil R. <p.d...@gm...>]

Hi Alan
It seems you were correct, I deleted the cache, but obviously that
wasn't enough. A full clean build directory solved the problem so you
can tick that off.

Phil

On 20 June 2015 at 21:00, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:
> Hi Phil:
>
> I have changed the subject line for this particular topic to something
> less general.  I am hoping my hypothesis that you are the victim of
> stale build results (see below) is correct so we can put this topic
> finally to rest.
>
> On 2015-06-20 11:46+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> Regarding the tcl cmake bug it is still there. Just to reiterate the
>> problem does not seem to be that the file that is being looked for has
>> a space - the problem is that the file genuinely does not exist. So
>> the problem must be elsewhere in the CMake logic, which could be due
>> to speces still I guess.
>>
>> Here is the error I get from trying to build INSTALL
>>
>> 102> CMake Error at bindings/cmake_install.cmake:39 (file):
>>
>> 102> file INSTALL cannot find "D:/usr/local/src/plplot-plplot/build/Visual
>>
>> 102> Studio 11 64sd/bindings/pkgIndex.tcl".
>
>
>> [...]Perhaps if you try to build in a directory with a space you will be
>> able to see more easily what the problem is?
>
>
> I looked at that as follows (as you should be able to verify on your Linux
> machines):
>
> software@raven> mkdir build\ dir
> software@raven> cd build\ dir/
> software@raven> cmake \
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/software/plplot/installcmake \
> -DENABLE_ada=OFF -DENABLE_ocaml=OFF \
> -DBUILD_TEST=ON ../plplot.git >& cmake.out
> software@raven> make -j4 install >& install.out
>
> I had to drop Ada and Ocaml because there are "spaced" pathname issues with
> those components which I don't have time to deal with
> at the present time.  But otherwise everything worked perfectly (thanks
> mostly to your work on spaced pathname issues in the past, but also
> because of my recent fixes).  For
> example,
>
> software@raven> grep pkgIndex install.out
> Scanning dependencies of target concatenate_pkgIndex.tcl
> Generating pkgIndex.tcl
> Built target concatenate_pkgIndex.tcl
> -- Installing:
> /home/software/plplot/installcmake/share/plplot5.11.0/pkgIndex.tcl
>
> Since all the pkgIndex.tcl concatenation logic is working fine with a spaced
> build
> tree on Linux, I wonder if you are the victim of stale cached results.
> So please try the master tip version with an absolutely fresh build to
> see if that proves to be the case.  Note you normally don't have
> to do a fresh build to get reliable results especially when there is
> just a source code change, but sometimes it makes a difference if there
> are build-system changes (as in this case).
>
> Alan
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