Re: [Plplot-devel] Font problem

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

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Robert Schwebel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> on a SuSE 7.3 system we see this error while trying to run the x01c
> example:
>
> ----------8<----------
> *** PLPLOT ERROR ***
> Unable to open or allocate memory for font file
> Program aborted
> ---------->8----------
>
> Is this a known issue? Do I have to set some environment variables
> first?

I must guess here since you have given no details, but you probably tried to
use make check which is currently only partially supported.  In order for
that to work you must run make install first to install data such as fonts
and drivers in the configured install location.  Probably a cleaner
alternative to make check is to run make install, then cd to the *installed*
version of examples/c, then make x01c; ./x01c .

>
> Another thing is that on Debian unstable libtool fails:
>
> ----------8<----------
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0/bindings/f77'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile    -c -o strutil.lo `test -f
> 'strutil.f' || echo './'`strutil.f
> libtool: unrecognized option `-c'
> Try `libtool --help' for more information.
> make[2]: *** [strutil.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0/bindings/f77'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0/bindings'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0> libtool --version
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.3 (1.922.2.111 2002/10/23 02:54:36)
> ----------8<----------
>
> Which version is known to work? This should be put into the FAQ...

For the tarball version you should not run bootstrap.sh since it has already
been done for you with the correct autotools versions.  Instead, just run
configure; make; make install.

However, you do need to run bootstrap.sh if you want to use the cvs version
of Plplot (now stabilizing for our next release).  In that case, you must
use the following exact versions of autotools: autoconf-2.57,
automake-1.7.2, and libtool-1.4.3.  (We have to be careful with autotools
versions because those various tools are changing so rapidly with respect
to each other and overall.)

Your comment about the FAQ is a good one.  PLplot-5.2.0 has an enormous
number of changes under the hood compared to 5.1.0 (complete driver and
library reorganization, changing from autoconf to autotools configuration),
but unfortunately there was no time to document these changes, and the
documentation is still almost entirely for the 5.1.0 version. For our next
release in April, I hope to close this documentation gap a bit, but my time
continues to be quite limited so it would be nice to find additional
volunteers to help out.

Alan
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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 software
package (plplot.org).

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