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

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-01-26 22:35]:

> One question that springs to mind is why do we have all the device #define's
> both in plConfig.h and PlDevs.h?  Could we just drop plDevs.h altogether (at
> least for Linux/Unix systems) and use only plConfig.h?  That would require
> some big but straightforward changes to our hierarchy of PLplot includes,
> but I think it would work.
> 
> Alternatively, if we really want PlDevs.h created separately, then somebody
> has to figure out the autoconf commands to process Pldevs.h.in into PlDevs.h
> properly without using the AM_CONFIG_HEADER macro (which would run you into
> the date problems which started this thread).

This is a very serious bug and I will try to find some time tonight to try
to find a decent solution.  I agree with Alan that this must be fixed
properly.  Workarounds today will only result on headaches tomorrow.

I think that if/when this bug is fixed, a new 5.2.1 tarball will have to be
released.

-- 
Rafael