Re: [Plplot-devel] python works fine on RH 7.3

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

Maurice LeBrun writes:
 > Alan W. Irwin writes:
 >  > (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.
 > 
 > Lots.  But the ones that look to be the likely culprits are:
 > 
 > < #define SWIG_init    initplplotc
 > < #define SWIG_name    "plplotc"
 > 
 > > #define SWIG_init    init_plplotc
 > > #define SWIG_name    "_plplotc"
 > 
 > The latter ones are those generated by swig 1.3.14.  Ugh.

OK, I have built, installed, and tested 1.3.11 through 1.3.15,
and found:

    #define SWIG_init    initplplotc
    #define SWIG_name    "plplotc"

are used by 1.3.11 - 1.3.13, and

    #define SWIG_init    init_plplotc
    #define SWIG_name    "_plplotc"

are used in 1.3.14 & 1.3.15.  Since it's in both of the last two versions it
would seem to be a convention change and not a bug.  Jeez, I'd think this
would warrant a major version number change since it's clearly not backward
compatible.

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