Re: [Plplot-general] Fix for CMake error that was turning up on recent dashboards + comment on ctest error for those same dashboards

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

On 12/14/2016 06:10 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Those tests also showed one ctest error for Ubuntu concerning the test
> of our pdf device for C example 24. The fix for that has been known a
> long time and has been accepted upstream by the libhpdf developers,
> and even packaged experimentally downstream by Debian (see
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726069>), but that
> package of the new 2.3.0 upstream version of libhpdf has for some
> unknown reason never made it into Debian stable releases and also not
> into Ubuntu releases.  So until those packaging issues are fixed,
> Debian and Ubuntu users will always run into this PLplot ctest issue
> unless they build that latest libhpdf version for themselves (like
> I do for my own comprehensive tests).

Based on my tests using docker images, I believe that this version of 
libhpdf is currently only available in arch-linux, and is not available 
in any of debian stable, debian latest, fedora latest, opensuse 
tumbleweed or ubuntu latest. This might merit a check by cmake for the 
correct version? Otherwise I think this test is going to fail for pretty 
much everyone.

-Hazen