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

[Pankaj L. <pa...@da...>]

Thanks for your reply Maurice.

Did you require to make any changes in configure file, pkgIndex file to build
the Plplotter on Solaris,  as I found "pkgIndex.tcl" still has "ver" variable as
"5.1.0" which causing problem in loading the appropriate drivers.

Also when Build the Plplotter package, I am getting three packages like "Pltcl",
"Pltk", "Plplotter". Which of these packages is backward compatible with
Plplotter 5.1.0?

Thanks again for your time.
-Pankaj.

----- Original Message -----
From: Maurice LeBrun <mj...@ga...>
To: Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...>
Cc: Pankaj Laddha <pa...@da...>; PLplot development list
<Plp...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with Solaris - tcl/tk Plplot 5.2.0


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