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[Plplot-devel] Re: [Plplot-general] refreshing with several streams [debian octave-plplot-0.3]

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:21, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
| On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jo=E3o Cardoso <jc...@fe...> wrote:
| > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:43, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
| > > P.S.  BTW, the octave-plplot/README contains the following which
| > > does not seem to be accurate anymore:
| >
| > Where did you saw that? I have changed it in April 2001!
|
| In the Debian =AB unstable =BB package source (file
| octave-plplot-0.3.orig/README) ; see (download and send a mail to the
| maitainer at):
|
| http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/octave-plplot.html
|
| I thought it was up-to-date since the plplot packages are.

Since plplot-5.0.3 (March 2001) that plplot_octave is integrated into=20
plplot. You should use the builtin version. Look in bindings/octave in=20
the source distribution.

Rafael & David, does the debian octave-plplot-0.3 package still makes=20
sense? Specially if it is outdated?

Thanks,
Joao

|
| ChriS

Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: [Plplot-general] refreshing with several streams [debian octave-plplot-0.3]

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

* João Cardoso <jc...@fe...> [2003-02-12 16:09]:

> Rafael & David, does the debian octave-plplot-0.3 package still makes 
> sense? Specially if it is outdated?

This package will be supplemented by the forthcoming octave-plplot-5.2.0
(or, more probably, octave-plplot-5.2.1), built directly from the upstream
sources.

The crappy package octave-plplot-0.3 should not be used in any case.
(I mean, its Debian packaging is crappy. Otherwise, PLplot_Octave is great!
:-)

-- 
Rafael

[Plplot-devel] Re: debian plplot & octave-plplot-0.3

[Christophe T. <deb...@ti...>]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, João Cardoso <jc...@fe...> wrote:
> 
> Rafael & David, does the debian octave-plplot-0.3 package still
> makes sense? Specially if it is outdated?

Well, if I may say my opinion, you do not want the plplot package to
depend on octave, so it is good to keep octave related stuff in a
separate package.

Talking about the Debian packages, « plplot-tcl » which is supposed to
contain the tk driver does not.  I can see that a version of the lib
with the tk driver enabled is compiled but for some reason does not
end up in the package.  Also, are they reasons why the debian package
is not compiled with
	--with-double 	(if there are no issues with speed, are there??)
	--enable-png 	(couldn't make it to work)

A plplot-examples package would be nice.

BTW, there are some problems when compiling plplot-5.2.0 with the
option --with-double, make ends with the message:

	...
	make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dg300d.lo', needed by `libplplotdrv.la'.  Stop.
	make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/PLPLOT/plplot-5.2.0/drivers'
	make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


Finally, if I issue « xhost +local: », the Tk driver crashes with:

	X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
	    while executing
	"send $client "set server_name [list $server_name]""
	    (procedure "plserver_link_init" line 25)
	    invoked from within
	"plserver_link_init"
	    (procedure "plserver_init" line 85)
	    invoked from within
	"plserver_init"

Why?  (There is no problem with the xwin driver.)

Cheers,
ChriS

Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: debian plplot & octave-plplot-0.3

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

* Christophe TROESTLER <deb...@ti...> [2003-02-12 19:49]:

> Well, if I may say my opinion, you do not want the plplot package to
> depend on octave, so it is good to keep octave related stuff in a
> separate package.

This will be the case.

> Talking about the Debian packages, « plplot-tcl » which is supposed to
> contain the tk driver does not.

I am doing a big overhaul in the Debian packages and they will be available
when the next version of PLplot will be released (5.2.1 or 5.3.0).  They
will be much improved.  All the tk drivers will be included oin plplot-tcl.

> A plplot-examples package would be nice.

The examples will be distributed with their respective packages:

  libplplot-dev: /usr/share/doc/libplplot5/examples/{c,c++,f77}
  python-plplot: /usr/share/doc/libplplot5/examples/python
  octave-plplot: /usr/share/doc/libplplot5/examples/octave
  plplot-tcl:    /usr/share/doc/libplplot5/examples/{tcl,tk}

-- 
Rafael

Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: debian plplot & octave-plplot-0.3

[David S. <ds...@sc...>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I am doing a big overhaul in the Debian packages and they will be available
> when the next version of PLplot will be released (5.2.1 or 5.3.0).  They
> will be much improved.  All the tk drivers will be included oin plplot-tcl.

If you're going to do this, do you need to wait for a new release?

I implemented many of these changes in December, but it tended to
break a lot of stuff, and I didn't have the time to complete and
upload it.  If you want to continue to maintain the Debian packages,
that's great, but I need to know that I'm _not_ (de facto)
maintaining them. :)  You haven't done an upload in almost 2 years.

By the way, I haven't been doing uploads recently because I
don't want to make buggy changes which might hold up python-2.2
transition.  Doesn't look very likely in the near future, but
we can hope.



dave...

Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: debian plplot & octave-plplot-0.3

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 18:49, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jo=E3o Cardoso <jc...@fe...> wrote:
=2E..
> BTW, there are some problems when compiling plplot-5.2.0 with the
> option --with-double, make ends with the message:
>
> =09...
> =09make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dg300d.lo', needed by
> `libplplotdrv.la'.  Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/PLPLOT/plplot-5.2.0/drivers'
> =09make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

It turns out that this question has already been answered:

It turns out the fatal combination is static drivers and --with-double on
*all* platforms.  (We gave the mistaken impression before this problem on=
ly
occurred on some platforms.) Thus, for any platform a workaround is to
specify --enable-dyndrivers.  An alternative workaround is to avoid
specifying --with-double.  Its a Boolean OR of those two workarounds. Thu=
s,
the combination of --enable-dyndrivers and --with-double builds fine sinc=
e
the first workaround condition is fulfilled.  Similarly, default options
(nothing specified about the kind of drivers or precision) build fine sin=
ce
the second condition is fulfilled.

>
>
> Finally, if I issue =AB xhost +local: =BB, the Tk driver crashes with:
>
> =09X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command igno=
red
> =09    while executing
> =09"send $client "set server_name [list $server_name]""
> =09    (procedure "plserver_link_init" line 25)
> =09    invoked from within
> =09"plserver_link_init"
> =09    (procedure "plserver_init" line 85)
> =09    invoked from within
> =09"plserver_init"
>
> Why?  (There is no problem with the xwin driver.)

This question was also already answered (not a plplot issue): you have to=
 use=20
xauth in order to securely run Tk (as tk has a mechanism that would allow=
=20
others to execute commands on your computer -- no need to be a hacker).
The easier way to setup xauth is to use a xdm login manager, like xdm, kd=
m,=20
etc. Otherwise you must use the xauth program and *do not* enable xhosts.=
=20
Other possibility is to rebuild tk without security.

Thanks,
Joao

>
> Cheers,
> ChriS
>
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