Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot now working well with Debian Buster + release timing

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

On 09/15/2018 01:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> To Orion and Ole:
> 
> Commit a730ebe34 has removed the last of the "new software" issues I
> have identified with Debian Testing = Buster.
> 
> @Orion: I encourage you to try that commit on Fedora to see if you get
> similarly good results for all Linux-available components of
> PLplot for that other cutting-edge Linux platform.
> 
> @Both: You both also might want to experiment with this commit as the
> basis for much-improved PLplot packages for Fedora and Debian.
> However such packages can only be considered preliminary until PLplot
> makes an official release.  What I can say on that topic is commit
> a730ebe34 is an important milestone on the trail to the next release,
> but we are not there yet.
> 
> For example, the CMake test that is automatically produced every night
> by my computer for the CMake developers builds and tests the latest
> CMake.  One of those tests is the PLplot contract test which tests
> whether a build (but not test) of PLplot is successful.  That test is
> formally succeeding, but those PLplot builds are incomplete (with the
> cairo device driver dropped) because of incompatibilities with the way
> we configure our cairo device driver using internal details of the
> CMake pkg-config capability.  Although the use of such internal
> details has worked well over many years with few adjustments needed
> for changes to those internal details with CMake version, it is again
> no longer working with the very latest CMake.  This reflects the
> fundamental fragility of any method that uses internal details.
> Therefore, to deal with this issue my plan is to completely rewrite
> our support for the cairo device using the official CMake pkg-config
> support rather than internal details of that support.  And there are
> also a few other topics I would like to squeeze into the next release.
> So this makes the ETA of our next PLplot release still somewhat
> uncertain, but I am still hoping to get it done this year (before
> Christmas season) rather than early next year.

Latest git (a9d9500c) built on Fedora Rawhide:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=29771905

Despite the overall failure to build, looks mostly okay, but it appears 
that you don't support lua 5.3:

-- Could NOT find Lua (missing: LUA_INCLUDE_DIR) (Required is exact 
version "5.2")
-- Could NOT find Lua (missing: LUA_INCLUDE_DIR) (Required is exact 
version "5.1")
-- LUA_INCLUDE_DIR =
-- LUA_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib64/liblua.so;/usr/lib64/libm.so
-- WARNING: Lua header and/or library not found. Disabling Lua binding


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