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

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Maurice LeBrun writes:
 > 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.

Issue resolved.  I rebuilt my development TK library & installed.  After that
I got the same insecure message that I got with the plplot & TK rpm's.  So
I guess I built the TK library with security turned off at some point and
completely forgot about it.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)