Re: [Plplot-devel] Octave 4.0.0

[Orion P. <or...@co...>]

On 07/11/2015 08:27 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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

I'm afraid that the plplot octave tests have been failing for quite a while in
Fedora Rawhide, probably due to gcc 5 as reported back in March.


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