Re: [Plplot-devel] version info, runalldemos.tcl, etc.

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> ./plserver
> source ../examples/tk/runAllDemos.tcl
> 
> is almost entirely working now.

Good!

> Interestingly, for this environment I get the same first-page skip bug if a
> multi-page demo (such as 8) is plotted first.  Do you get that for your
> non-plserver environment?  If not, that will be another clue for Maurice when
> he attempts to figure out this long-standing bug.

If I understand what you're saying, then no, I don't see that bug.  But
I'm not 100% sure I know what you mean.

> One glitch in runAllDemos.tcl is the page button does
> not work.  Here is the stack trace delivered by plserver

Does hitting 'return' work?

> % source ../examples/tk/runExtendedDemos.tcl
> invalid command name "Plplotwin"

The extended demo won't work.  Sorry for the misleading cvs msg.

> The other remaining issue I forgot to mention last time was the
> bindings/tcl/pltclgen perl script that won't work for you because of
> line-ending issues.  I assume that should be straightforward since perl has
> had to deal with these sorts of issues forever.  However, that will probably
> take somebody familiar with perl (Geoffrey?) to figure this out.

Indeed!

> Yes, the compile farm probably didn't have swig at all or swig-1.1 rather
> than the required swig-1.3. Of course you could have worked around that by
> the --disable-python configure option. The missing tk and tcl headers (which
> I assume is what the problem is) on the compile farm are the real
> showstoppers. But for unknown reasons SF have a long track record of
> excluding essential developer packages from their compile-farm machines.

I eventually found the disable-python flag, but there doesn't seem to be
any workaround for tcl/tk missing...

thanks!

Vince.