Re: [Plplot-devel] Aspirin for autoheadache

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

On Friday 31 January 2003 12:51, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
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| > Also, there is the issue of static drivers which seemed to fail on
| > all platforms other than Debian. I will make sure they work both
| > for RH7.3 and the limited solaris system I have access to, but
| > after that I rely on the rest of the developers to test my fix
| > (assuming the problem shows for one of those two platforms) on all
| > your accessible platforms.

This is not quite true, since static drivers work in SuSE-8.1 (with the=20
5.2.0 tarball). What I have advised users to do is to use dyndrivers,=20
as that is the more tested configuration.

There is however something that can be confusing, perhaps not only for=20
users but also for libtool: there is the standard --enable-shared and=20
our own --with-shlibs.
If I specify only --disable-shared, at the end in the configure summary=20
appears --with-shlibs=3Dyes. To be sure, I have specified both =20
--disable-shared and --without-shlib, and after make and make install=20
only static libs where installed, no drivers where installed and x01c=20
has more than 1.6MB and runs OK.

| Unless I have access to a non-Debian system (which I don't) I cannot
| help here.  The bug report sent by Doug Hunt to the plplot-devel is
| very terse and I have no clue about the origin of the problem.
|
| > Are there any other configuration changes anybody wants to tackle
| > before 5.2.1 comes out?

- I would like to drop the --with-shlibs option and use only the=20
standard --enable-shared.

-  --enable-dyndrivers should be the default, as it is the more tested=20
configuration.

- --with-double should be the default, as most users seems to use it.

- with-debug should be the default. This is the standard and will help=20
us to trace user reported segfaults/core-dumps.

Joao