[Plplot-devel] RH 7.2 rpm's need testing

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

Hello Maurice,

I have just generated some RH 7.2 rpm's for plplot and matwrap (required
since I put in an explicit dependency on this rpm in the plplot rpm) and put
them in the file release area at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915.  Would you
please give these a check on your RH 7.2 system to make sure they
install/work okay?

In particular before I announce this to plplot-general, an interactive test
is required since one user said he had X troubles with plplot-7.2, and
I have only been able to do remote non-interactive testing of these rpm's.

Note, I solved the python problem by demanding (in the spec file) that
python-VERSION modules are created where VERSION is returned by the python
command.  For RH 7.2 VERSION is 1.5 since the python command refers to the
1.5 version and the *python2* command refers to the 2.1 version. If you
don't have the python (1.5) rpm's installed, then the python examples won't
work.  You must, of course, also have python-numpy-15.3-1.i386.rpm installed
from http://prdownloads.sf.net/numpy/

The remote non-interactive testing gave identical psc, png, and plmeta
results to previous for RH 7.1.  The jpeg results were different, but that
is expected because of the different gd (and jpeg?) libraries.  For the
first time for an rpm-based distribution, the new RH7.2 results also include
octave test results (made possible by the matwrap rpm).

Joao, the spec files for the matwrap and plplot RH7.2 rpm's are in CVS now
(plplot/rpm). You may want to use these spec files as models for your SuSe
rpm creation attempts.  BTW, the matwrap rpm is *required* to build the
plplot rpm.  I also put in requires matwrap >= 0.57 in the specfile.
Although this extra dependency is harmless enough, I am not clear whether it
is really required for the binary plplot rpm.  If it is actually not needed,
I will take it out for my next plplot RH 7.2 release, and of course you will
want to drop it immediately from your SuSe spec file as well.

Alan

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