Re: [Plplot-devel] a small patch to PLplot

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Doug Hunt <dh...@uc...> [2003-03-05 10:03]:

> I just checked the PDL::Graphics::PLplot interface (I dropped the 'OO') 
> into the PDL CVS.  There are some bugs still which I plan on fixing 
> today.  It has conditional compile support for both plplot versions 
> 5.1.1 and 5.2.0.

Great.  When is the next release of PDL (or your module) expected to come
out?

> BTW:  Is there a better way of determining the version of plplot 
> installed on a system besides looking at the file name that the 
> libplplotd.so symlink points to?

Please, never, never, NEVER, do this.  Although the library soname have
coincided with the package version up to now, this is not going to be
necessarily the case in the future.

If you have pkg-config installed, you can use 

    pkg-config plplot-double --modversion

if PLplot was build --with-double, or

    pkg-config plplot --modversion

if not.

For more information on pkg-config, see:

    http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/

-- 
Rafael