Re: [Plplot-devel] Make of plplot-5.2.0 fails on a freshly installed Red-Hat-8.0.

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Friday 24 January 2003 19:15, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
| > Nope, it still gives the same error, described in my first e-mail.
| > Even if configured with a plain:
| > ./configure --prefix /home/jcard --enable-dyndrivers
| >
| > For completeness, I tried the same in Suse-8.1, and the problem is
| > exactly the same as in the Red-Hat-8.0. I used several configure
| > options, even a plain ./configure, all with the same result.
|
| So therefore this is a general problem with the PLplot-5.2.0
| tarball not limited to just octave.  UGH.
|
| To add information, please also check your CVS build with your own
| autotools.  Is 'missing --run autoheader' invoked after
| ./bootstrap.sh in that case as well?

Not exactly. 'configure' runs OK in all platforms, and 'make' also=20
compiles many sources. It's only when 'make' finish building the plplot=20
library that it cd to the include directory and fails. (Notice, at the=20
end of this mail there is a clue to solve the problem)

With my cvs tree the same happens:

(...)
meta ps psc pstex xterm tek4010 tek4107 mskermit versaterm vlt conex=20
tek4010f te(cd .libs && rm -f libplplot.la && ln -s ../libplplot.la=20
libplplot.la)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcard/plplot/src'
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jcard/plplot/include'
cd .. && /bin/sh /home/jcard/plplot/missing --run autoheader
WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.

WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':

WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])

WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.
autoheader: `include/plConfig.h.in' is unchanged
touch ./plDevs.h.in
cd .. && /bin/sh ./config.status include/plDevs.h
config.status: creating include/plDevs.h
config.status: include/plDevs.h is unchanged
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcard/plplot/include'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcard/plplot/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcard/plplot/include'
Making all in lib

(...)

Meanwhile, I tried it again in the OSF machine, removing the plplot=20
directory, unpacking, configuring and make, and it failed again, so it=20
seems that subsequent configure/make "solves" the problem? Odd.

uhmm, under OSF the problem is another one, its '/bin/bash=20
=2E/config.status include/plDevs.h' that fails:

WARNING: `autoheader' is missing on your system.  You should only need=20
it if
         you modified `acconfig.h' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
         to install the `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages.  Grab them
         from any GNU archive site.
touch ./plDevs.h.in
cd .. && /bin/bash ./config.status include/plDevs.h
make[1]: *** [stamp-h2] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/users1/deec/jcard/plplot-5.2.0/include'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

bash-2.01$ /bin/bash ./config.status include/plDevs.h
Segmentation fault <-------------------------------------------------

bash-2.01$ /bin/sh ./config.status include/plDevs.h
config.status: creating include/plDevs.h
config.status: include/plDevs.h is unchanged

And now a 'make -i' goes through the end, then make -i install, make -i=20
check, etc run OK.
So, lets forget the OSF machine where *another* problem is breaking the=20
make.

But it gives clues to solve the other systems problem. In OSF, as=20
autotools does not exists, the make continues after the warning (but=20
stops afterwards because of the *other*, not plplot related problem).

In the platforms that have autotools, the problem arises because of a=20
version conflict. Just that.

Joao

|  Of course it will work in that
| case since your autotools will be self-consistent, but I don't think
| missing should be invoked at all.
|
| Maurice, will you please take over as the leader of this debugging
| effort? I just don't have the autoconf background that you do, and
| this weekend is already solidly booked by my job to make up for the
| time I have already spent on the PLplot release.
|
| Also, Maurice, if you confirm the problem, I will send out a notice
| on PLplot general that we have found a problem with the tarball that
| makes it not build on a number of platforms, and we are working to
| resolve the problem.
|
| Alan
|
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