Re: [Plplot-devel] tk driver

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

Vince, I won't be able to test the package you mention below because I don't
have access to a windows machine.

However, I did make a fresh checkout/configure/build, and there were no
obvious problems with your recent round of changes from the Linux
perspective.  I do still have to

setenv PL_LIBRARY .

in the plplot/tmp directory to get the tcl stuff to work there.  I must say
I didn't understand the discussion between Maurice and you on this issue.

I would be perfectly happy to use the above command in the tmp area so long
as the installed version that most of our users will be using does not
require setting an environment variable.

For an installation prefix of /usr/local/plplot the plplot.tcl is installed
in

/usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl

on Linux systems.  However, the *installed version* of pltcl now gives the
following error:

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application-specific initialization failed: Can't find a usable plplot.tcl
in the following directories:
    . /usr/lib/plplot5.1 /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1
/usr/local/lib/plplot5.1 /usr/local/plplot/library /usr/local/library
/usr/local/plplot5.1/library /usr/plplot5.1/library



This probably means that plplot wasn't installed properly.
***********

This error goes away if you

setenv PL_LIBRARY /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl

BTW, I also tried

setenv PL_LIBRARY /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0

but the tcl on the end is necessary.

From the above error message pltcl automatically searchs
$prefix/lib/plplot5.1 now.  Vince, how can that be changed to
$prefix/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl, instead so setting the environment variable
is not necessary on the installed version.

Alan

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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Vince Darley wrote:

> Note: If desired I can upload a simple binary .zip archive of a package
> which should be loadable into a standard Tk interpreter (i.e. drop
> unzipped directory into your Tcl tree on any windows machine, ....