Re: [Plplot-devel] Octave 4.0.0

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

On 2015-07-11 17:52-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:
>On 07/10/2015 12:04 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> 
>> My fix for octave 4.0,0 support in swig is here:
>> https://github.com/swig/swig/pull/460

> plplot 5.11.0 is building fine in Rawhide with a patched swig 3.0.6, octave 
> 4.0.0, and the patch to plplot for swig 3.0.6 doc issue.

Hi Orion:

Thanks for that encouraging news with regard to good builds of the
octave binding of PLplot against Octave-4.0.0.  But I have also been
concerned about the run-time results as well which you can
straightforwardly check there by simply running

cmake .... >& cmake.out
make test_diff_psc >& test_diff_psc.out

in an initially empty build tree.

Normally that test shows there are no differences between the
octave-generated and C-generated results for all our examples for the
Octave-3.x.y case.  If running that test there shows the same thing
for the Octave-4.0.0 case that is a very strong test of our octave
bindings for that case.

Regardless of whether you try such a run time check, your build
success motivates me to expand the epa_build implementation to see how
far I can get with an epa_build of Octave-4.0.0 and patched versions
of swig-2 and swig-3.  Assuming I can epa_build all of those, then
that would allow me to do the above run-time check here for patched
versions of both swig-2 and swig-3, and thus help build the case to
get your swig patch (or two variants of that if your patch has to be
modified for swig-2) into the next official releases of both swig-2
and swig-3.

Alan
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