[Plplot-devel] Distributed tarball success on ix86

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

I just finished a commit on the AT branch so that if you follow the usual
recipe with "make dist", it will roll a tarball with everything required for
a cross-platform build (only xwin and ps drivers and only C front end).

I tried this tarball at the Debian ix86 computer on the compile farm and
achieved complete success.  No autotools were required there.  It was simply
configure --prefix=wherever --with-double --enable-dyndrivers; make; make install. The
file generated by x08c -dev psc there was identical to the one generated on
my home machine. (Note the current tarball does not include any examples so
you have to copy x08c and plcdemos.h to whatever machine you are testing
on.)

That test is of course necessary, but not sufficient.  We should try this on
a whole variety of machines to test whether the distribution tarball is
truly cross-platform.

I have one more platform accessible to me to try this on: the Sparc - R220
Sun Solaris (8) at the compile farm.  But after that, it is up to those of
you with more extensive platform access to try this while I concentrate for
the next couple of days on getting more drivers and front ends going.

Alan

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