[Plplot-devel] Re: Problems Installing Plplot-5.2.0 under AIX (fwd)

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

It appears from the ./x01c -debug message below that dynamic drivers do not
work at all on AIX.  The error reminds me very much of what happened with
OSF1 when Joao first tested it.  Ultimately, we overcame that by being very
careful of the exact file name root we asked for with lt_dlopenext so that
it could try various suffixes for each platform until something worked.  (I
have already cautioned Rafael about that issue with his new scheme.)
However, it appears from the -debug message below that even lt_dlopenext
cannot find the correct AIX driver file at this time.

The good news is that Don was finally successful on AIX with plplot-5.2.0 if
he used static drivers (without double) and avoided C++, f77, and tcl.
There was one minor issue with the bindings/octave/Makefile which I am still
tracking down (I think some of my comments mixed in with rules are giving
problems to AIX make), but he bypassed that with make -k install.

If Don is still willing to do some further testing, I think we have a good
chance of solving the bindings/octave/Makefile issue and possibly (depending
on ongoing discussions with Maurice) also the tcl issue before 5.2.1.

The dynamic drivers and c++ and f77 issues will probably have to wait.

Alan
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:53:54 -0500
From: Don Spong <sp...@or...>
To: Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...>
Subject: Re: Problems Installing Plplot-5.2.0 under AIX

Alan,

You asked about the following:

>To give me some additional information about this error, please
>try
>
>./x01c -debug -dev xwin

Okay, here's what I got:

spongda>x01c -debug -dev xwin
Plplot library version: 5.2.0
plLoadDriver: Device not loaded!
plLoadDriver: tag=xw, drvidx=11
plLoadDriver: Trying to load xwin_drv on
/home/spongda/plplot_install_dir_5.2.0/lib/plplot5.2.0/data/../drivers/xwin_drv
plLoadDriver: lt_dlopenext failed because of the following reason:
file not found
Unable to load driver: xwin_drv.

*** PLPLOT ERROR ***
Unable to load driver
Program aborted
spongda>

x01c now works okay when I build with static drivers.

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