[Plplot-devel] python works fine on RH 7.3

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

Maurice, I just built the plplot (1.5) python interface on RH 7.3 without
any problems For example, I can run pythondemos.py in plplot/tmp without any
problems.

One potentially significant difference from your effort is I
used the attached python interface files that I generated with swig
on my Debian system.  Could you please do the following?

(1) See if the attached files work for you.  They of course should be placed
in bindings/python with the exact names I have given them.  The Makefile and
the symlinks set up in tmp by configure should take care of the rest.

(2) If you also obtain success with those interface files, then please
compare them with what is generated by the latest-generation swig you
installed on your RH7.3 system, and please let me know what differences
there are.

Note, most users will have access to the attached files since I will be
including them in the release tarball for the next release in
bindings/python.  It is only cvs users that have to build them for
themselves with swig (or use the attached versions until the next tweak
of the python interface).

I also found there was an itcl installation problem on RH7.3.  Once we
are on the same page with respect to the python interface, could you look
into that?  The error messages were:

no files matched glob patterns "*.tcl *.itcl *.itk *.ith *.itm"
    while executing
"glob *.tcl *.itcl *.itk *.ith *.itm"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval glob $args"
    (procedure "auto_mkindex" line 24)
    invoked from within
"auto_mkindex . *.tcl *.itcl *.itk *.ith *.itm"
    invoked from within
"if {[catch {package require Itcl}]} {

# Error including Itcl -- only include tcl files
    auto_mkindex . *.tcl

I currently have no idea where this is coming from and would be most
interested in whether the same installation error happens on your RH7.3
machine.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
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Dr. Alan W. Irwin
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University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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