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

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > 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?)

Sorry for the late reply.  A few comments:

1. To get 'package require' to work, you must have dynamically-loadable
modules.  So try with dynamic drivers.

2. I have never tried PLplot with tcl/tk 8.4.  I believe one of our developers
(Geoff Furnish) did try some time back and had problems.  So maybe try to
stick with 8.3.x for now.  We will look at validating PLplot with tcl/tk 8.4
asap.

3. I only got the basic package built & a few simple tests.  I don't recall if
I tested the X driver but if I did, it was using a RH7.3 box as client.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)