Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: [Plplot-cvs] CVS update notice (plplot/src)

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

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:

> At last, Alan has been my only interlocutor in this issue, and he does
> not seems sensible to this "make install" problem.

Joao, you should know from my previous posts on this matter that this
assertion is false.

On the contrary, I understand how the make install latency could be
annoying, and I will support any "make check" solution that does not have
any confusion/ambiguity between the build and install locations. For older
versions of plplot with this ambiguity we wasted many man-hours trying to
confirm tmp-area bugs which turned out to be caused by (or hidden by) prior
buggy installs. All I want to do is avoid this bad situation in the future.

The configuration process already has all the required information on the
various build locations of everything required for PLplot to run so in
principle it is entirely possible to support "make check" without any
build/install location ambiguity, but it will take a fair amount of thought
about the design. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from designing
and implementing such a solution if you are willing to be careful of this
one build/install ambiguity issue.

Alan
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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 softwar=
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package (plplot.org).

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