Re: [Plplot-devel] Example 19 differences for Tcl

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

Hi Alan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:06 AM
> To: Arjen Markus; PLplot development list
> Subject: Example 19 differences for Tcl
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> I was just now able to complete a comprehensive test of master tip using
>
> scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --cmake_added_options \ "-
> DDEFAULT_NO_DEVICES=ON -DPLD_ps=ON  -
> DDEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS=ON \ -DENABLE_cxx=ON -DENABLE_f95=ON -
> DENABLE_java=ON -DENABLE_python=ON \ -DENABLE_tcl=ON -
> DENABLE_lua=ON" --do_test_interactive no
>
> (I limited the test this way in the interests of speed.)  For all
> 12 components of this comprehensive test, the PostScript diff results were
> consistent.  They were also perfect for all the above bindings other than the Tcl one
> which had the following summary (12 different
> times):
>
> tcl
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing graphical output  :  19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            :
>
> Further investigation showed those example 19 differences were primarily due to
> missing contour lines and roads? on the fifth
> (shapelib) page of the Tcl plot.  I do know the other above bindings produce the
> same as the C result for example 19 for the recent plmap library changes so I don't
> see how the Tcl result could be affected differently than the others. Anyhow, once
> you do install shapelib on Cygwin (probably after we finish the new Fortran binding
> since it is probably not a good idea to change your platform right in the middle of
> working on that), I would appreciate you (a) attempting to verify this issue, and (b)
> debugging this issue assuming you verify it.
>

That is odd, because nothing has changed as far as I know since the last release in this area.

> But also note that the master tip Fortran binding and Fortran example
> 19 do produce the same result as C so that will be my goal also when finishing up
> the new Fortran binding (in the next few days I hope).
>


Yes, I will have a look at this once the Fortran work is done. Right now on my machine such differences are hidden by the fact that Cygwin installation is currently missing the shapelib library.

Regards,

Arjen

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