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

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

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > 
 > > I was able to do ./x01c -dev xwin with the installed libraries a few days
 > > ago, but I also confirm it no longer works now with -dev xwin.
 > >
 > > I have looked at your changes and see nothing to disagree with.  So it is a
 > > puzzle.  But I believe I can figure out what is going on since that error
 > > message comes from just one part of the plplot core code.
 > 
 > Actually, I now see the problem.  In an earlier set of changes you removed
 > all dependencies for the installed drivers and that messed up the use of $<
 > later on in the rule so, e.g., xwin.o wasn't being put into xwin_drv.so
 > (which caused something of a problem...;-)) I have just reinstated the first
 > dependency shared/xwin$O, etc., for each of the drivers in CVS, and now
 > ./x01c -dev xwin, -dev tkwin, and -dev tk works fine for the installed
 > drivers (so long as your PATH points to $prefix/bin).
 > 
 > In general, I would like to keep dependencies in, if it doesn't mess up the
 > RH version of make.  Maurice, I don't think it was these first dependencies
 > that were giving you trouble with RH make. However, please test this out,
 > and if you are still having trouble we can do it without the dependency by
 > replacing $< in the rule by the appropriate value.

Whoops.  Thanks for catching that one.. so much for being fast & loose. :)
I'll give the Plplotter package another try.

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