Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with Solaris - tcl/tk Plplot 5.2.0

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

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Pankaj Laddha wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I built plplotter 5.2.0 on Solaris (Active tcl version 8.4). I have disabled
> dynamic drivers and enable tcl/tk driver. I am attaching log of configure to
> this mail for refer of various options I have used for building the shared
> libraries.
>
> I tried the sequence given at end of this post at wish prompt. I observed two
> things.
> 1. Why do Plplotter search for tk_drv.so or tkd_drv.so, even when I have built
> the shared library without any dynamic driver?
> 2. Why am I getting the XCreatPixmap errors when I try to creat second instance
> of plframe ?
>
> Any idea what is going wrong? Please help me.
>
> Thanks
> Pankaj.

This is just a guess because I only have a short time to answer this, but I
think we have a built-in assumption in the package require logic to look for
most stuff in the shared objects created when you specify dynamic drivers.
(Any volunteers to fix this assumption for 5.2.1?)

I cannot recall the rest of this thread, but did we advise you to use
static drivers for some reason?  Although those are the traditional solution,
they were not as well-tested as dynamic drivers for 5.2.0, and in fact there
is a well known bug if you use the combination of static drivers and double.

So please try dynamic drivers.  They certainly worked for me on one limited
solaris test without tcl/tk, and I think they are necessary for our current
tcl/tk package require logic.

Alan
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