Re: [Plplot-devel] Would you be willing to test PLplot against Octave-3.8.2 or later in the 3.8 series?

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

On 2015-07-10 23:27+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:

>
> I've built and run the non-interactive octave tests and they complete with
> no errors using octave-3.8.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid). I did have some
> build errors, but that was just related to the hdf5.h header being in a
> new location.

Hi Andrew:

The current status of the Cygwin octave-3.8.2 issue is
Arjen discovered the problem was an assumption in our scripts
concerning the location of the plplot_octave.oct dll for the Windows
case, and I am in the middle of fixing that assumption.

However, once I get that fix done, if Arjen runs into additional issues
it is good to know that PLplot basically works for octave-3.8.2
so many thanks for proving that.

With regard to the hdf5.h location issue you discovered on Ubuntu,
could you please make the required small adjustment to
cmake/modules/octave.cmake using PATH_SUFFIXES on the find_path
command so that it finds hdf5.h preferentially in the traditional
location (/usr/include/hdf5.h), but if it is not found there it looks
in the subdirectory of that location which is appropriate for Ubuntu
(and probably also later versions of Debian than I have at the
moment).

Thanks in advance for this small fix.

Alan
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