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

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

Thanks, Maurice, for these additional tests.

One question.  Did you get that "curiosity" with the vanilla RH 7.2 Tcl/tk
rpm's or with your own tcl/tk build?

Alan

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On Sun, 5 May 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin writes:
>  > I sent a release announcement to plplot-general so others can give this
>  > latest rpm a try, but I hope Maurice especially puts the new plplot rpm and
>  > the already existing matwrap rpm through the wringer (especially interactive
>  > tests of X which I cannot do) to be sure everything is okay.
>
> I finally got around to testing the plplot rpm's.  Wasn't exhaustive but spent
> about 30 min trying out different things.  Didn't see any significant
> problems.
>
> One curiosity: when testing the TK driver I first got:
>
> ged$ /usr/bin/plrender -dev tk phixs.plm
> X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
>     while executing
> "send $client "set server_name [list $server_name]""
>     (procedure "plserver_link_init" line 25)
>     invoked from within
> "plserver_link_init"
>     (procedure "plserver_init" line 85)
>     invoked from within
> "plserver_init"
>
> as was reported by someone else previously.  Once I followed the usual
> prescription of turning off xhost access to all hosts, it worked.  The funny
> thing is that my dev build of plrender does not seem to have this requirement.
> Something different about the TK I've built?  Maybe that's the source behind
> the confusion on the issue.  I'll try to discover the reason for the
> difference when I get a chance.
>
> --
> Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
> Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)
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