Re: [Plplot-devel] prescription for loading tkwin driver?

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

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > BTW, I did the same relink with different rpath for libplplottcltk[d].so.
 > Please change that as well if you think it will make a difference. For that
 > (and tkwin, tk, and xwin) I was naively following exactly what was done
 > before for the executables such as plserver, and the plplotc python
 > extension module, plplotcmodule.so, but for those examples it doesn't seem
 > to matter so much that after install ldd in plplot/tmp indicates they are
 > finding the libraries in the install location rather than plplot/tmp.

Right, probably it doesn't matter, but I'll think about it.

Originally it was kind of a tossup as to which way to go.  Since the first
change you make will result in a library rebuild and therefore executable
relink, there is little danger.  One reason to prefer having the relinked
executables in tmp/ is that you can rename them e.g. plserver -> plserver.old,
make some change to the library and then compare plserver to plserver.old,
since the latter will still be linked to the installed libraries and thus
make a good reference copy.

 > I will do a complete test of everything tomorrow to verify your changes work
 > here.  Also, I will try once again to get auto_path to work (this time
 > spelled correctly! Last time I was using autopath which is why nothing
 > worked.)   

D'oh!  Been there. :)

 > Basically I am thinking of
 > 
 > lappend auto_path /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl
 > 
 > the symlink I discussed before, and a modified pkgIndex.tcl
 > 
 > to see if the wish recipe can be simplified when plplot is installed.
 > 
 > But you are much better at tcl than me so if you have time tonight I invite
 > you (;-)) to please see what you can do yourself to get
 > 
 > package require Plplotter
 > 
 > working like Vince said was possible for the installed version.

Cool, I may have time to look into it.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
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