[Plplot-devel] Cross-platform portability issue fixups with PLplot

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

An acquaintance in our Victoria LUG has been kind enough to give me a shell
account on his netbsd box for testing the recent CVS snapshot tarballs that
Rafael has been generating at http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html.
I haven't yet been able to get very far because it turns out there are a lot
of Unix portability issues that need to be resolved.

I have identified and fixed such issues (use of deprecated values.h) in
lib/csa and lib/nn, Rafael has fixed others (empty for loops which some
older bourne shells don't like), and Rafael is working on yet more issues
that have been identified (generally, Gnu Makeism's that have crept into the
Makefile.am files). Once those and any other Unix portability issues
identified when I get deeper into the netbsd build) are sorted out, I will
let you know on list here. That would be a good opportunity to try PLplot on
other unices to see if there are any additional portability issues that need
to be addressed.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

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 software
package (plplot.org).

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