[Plplot-devel] C examples code is done, c++ and f77 is almost there

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

Just committed AT changes so that example code is installed in the usual
directory for the c, c++, and f77 examples.  I checked that the correct
support files for this (*.fm4, etc.) have been made part of the distribution
tarball so everything should just work in that mode for Linux and solaris
(and others?) without having to deal separately with example files
as I had to do yesterday.

After you use the usual cookbook (.bootstrap.sh; ./configure
--enable-dyndrivers; make; make install)
then simply cd to the *installed* version of examples/c and type

make -f Makefile.examples

to generate x01c --> x20c. In Makefiles.examples I have used the
plplot_libtool script (our configured version of the libtool script which is
now installed in $prefix/bin) to build the example executables.  This idea
worked yesterday (by hand) for building the examples on solaris so I think
it should just work on all Unix platforms.  Thus, I decided to use this idea
in Makefile.examples on a permanent basis, and I tested today that this
approach works on Linux.

I have also worked in parallel on Makefiles.examples(.in) in examples/c++
and examples/f77 but don't expect the above make -f command to work quite
yet in those installed directories.

Thanks, Maurice, for the encouraging words in a previous post.  The visible
progress I have been able to make with AT every day is also quite encouraging.

Alan

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Dr. Alan W. Irwin
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