Re: [Plplot-devel] cvs head versus Tcl/Tk 8.4.1

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

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Geoffrey Furnish writes:
>  > I'll try to make a detailed post tomorrow on what I'm having trouble
>  > with.
>
> Okay.  Here's the deal.  cvs head static driver builds are busted.
> Everybody seems to have known that but I had forgotten.
>
> Using --enable-dyndrivers, I can get a build, but only if I have
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to .:$prefix.  I don't think we should leave it
> like that.  Specification of correct -rpaths can alleviate that, and
> we should eventuall fix the build system to supply them in all the
> right places.  I ordinarily in my professional development activities,
> do not ever need to set LD_L_P.

Some time ago I complained bitterly that the java interface to PLplot
requires setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Despite much reading of java manuals we
couldn't find any way to wiggle out of it.  Since I always routinely include
java in my PLplot builds, I also routinely set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Like
you, I would prefer not to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all, but I would be a lot
more sensitive to the issue for non-java parts of PLplot, if we could find a
solution for the java part.

**I need some clarification from you**.  Do you get good results for tcl-8.3
with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set? If so, then that settles my principal concern that
we were getting different results.

It sounds from your other preliminary results that there will be some
substantial effort required to get PLplot to work with later versions of
tcl/tk on Linux.  I am glad you are working on that.  Although, tcl-8.3 is
the version used in my current distribution (Debian stable), I notice
tcl-8.4 is already in Debian testing, and I assume it is the version of
choice (or soon will be the version of choice) for other distributions as
well.

Alan