[Plplot-devel] plplot-config

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

Geoffrey expressed an opinion last year that plplot-config should be
reinstated so I had that on our PROBLEMS agenda until today when I
reconsidered the situation.  (Of course, anybody can put that on the
PROBLEMS agenda again if they are not convinced by using the
plplot_libtool alternative.)

Yesterday, I had a chance to see plplot_libtool in action for the static
drivers case where the gnome driver is part of the deal.  It worked
flawlessly to produce roughly half a page of information required for each
of examples/c/x??c.  I just doubt we are going to be able to reproduce that
excellent plplot_libtool result with plplot-config (unless we wrap
plplot_libtool by plplot-config, but I am not sure that is possible).  So
instead of using plplot-config, I would advocate using the simple calls to
plplot_libtool that are in the *installed* ..../examples/c/Makefile (and
similarly for the f77, c++, and tk examples). Anyhow, Geoffrey, will you
please try the plplot_libtool approach to see whether it is suitable for
your own linking needs?

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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