Re: [Plplot-devel] done with config changes + STATUS QUESTION

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

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Geoffrey Furnish writes:
>  > OTOH, I did learn that PLplot's configure support for Solaris leaves a
>  > lot to be desired.  Besides the problem with shell syntax, it also
>  > somehow dropped -lm from all the link lines, causing every C prog link
>  > to fail (but notice that the f77 links above all worked).
>
> I've done about all I can stand to fix various configure bugs for
> now.
>
> Solaris is always a touchy situation.  I have one solaris box here
> where CC is detected by PLplot configure, but cc doesn't work, and
> that causes all kinds of horrific screwups downstream.  I dunno, maybe
> we should someday think to improve the compiler detection to check for
> a "working compiler", not merely a compiler seen in the path.  Sheesh,

I ran into this solaris problem also (in the 5.0.3, era, I believe), and the
solution was to put the directory with the working (!) cc higher in the path
than the directory for the non-working one.

> I can't imagine how Sun has stayed in business all these years.
I can't imagine either.

>
> Anyway, I have another Solaris box where the cc works, also with KCC
> and g77.  On this box, I've been able to test SMP builds for C, C++
> and F77 components, and everything seems to work, including we now use
> KCC to form .a's as well as .so's.
> [...] So, I'd call the current CVS head the most stable, correct PLplot I've
> seen in a while.
>
> Great work, everybody.

Seconded!

>
> BTW, compiling with Sun cc is I suppose, what Alan was really driving
> at earlier.

Yes, sun/solaris compilation problems were the number one bug report for
5.0.4.  It looks like we will avoid that this time (assuming our solaris
users can find a working compiler!)

Alan