Re: [Plplot-general] Building a bare minimum plplot

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

On 2007-07-18 11:40-0400 Scott Hall wrote:

> I am new to PLplot and this the first time I have used CMake.  For
> simplicity, on my part, I have been using the GUI version (ccmake
> CMakeLists.txt) to generate the makefile.  I am attaching the output from
> using ccmake.  This was made on my Linux platform.

ccmake is a good choice for getting the annotations for the various options,
but there are caching issues with it, and ultimately cmake is more
reproducible since all options are spelt out on the command line, and you
can also see the annotation of the options in the generated file
CMakeCache.txt.

Because of that reproducibility issue could you please give us cmake output
instead?  Here is how you capture such output:

cmake -DDEFAULT_NO_DEVICES=ON -DPLD_ps=ON -DDEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS=ON \
path_to_source_tree >& cmake.out

Note, I have specified options to turn off all devices unless specified
otherwise (e.g., the ps device), and turn off all bindings (except for the
C one which cannot be turned off).

Also, please be sure to invoke cmake in an empty build tree to avoid caching
issues and other stale results.

Virtually everybody is new to cmake. :-) I was the first developer in our
group to start experimenting with it, but that was only a year ago.  We have
come a long way with it since because it is so easy to learn and so
powerful.  I think learning to use cmake is a general skill that is worth
the small learning effort for most people who build packages such as PLplot.

Alan
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