plplot-devel

[Plplot-devel] done for now

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

OK, I've completed my first shakedown of the new plplot config under Linux and
am basically happy with what I see.  Still a few niggling points, hopefully
minor.  I'll give it a try on Solaris and broader testing on Linux in a few
days, and hopefully by then my network connection to Japan will be back up so
I can test under OSF1 and IRIX.

BTW it's easy enough to get rid of that irritating message from autoheader by
just editing autoheader and chopping it out.  I think I may just have to make
that my first new FAQ entry in 7 years!

-- 
Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)

Re: [Plplot-devel] done for now

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

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> OK, I've completed my first shakedown of the new plplot config under Linux and
> am basically happy with what I see.

Great!  Thanks for taking it on a test drive.

> Still a few niggling points, hopefully
> minor.  I'll give it a try on Solaris and broader testing on Linux in a few
> days, and hopefully by then my network connection to Japan will be back up so
> I can test under OSF1 and IRIX.

Probably Solaris is the important one for the release, but if you can get to
OSF1 and IRIX as well that would be a nice bonus.

>
> BTW it's easy enough to get rid of that irritating message from autoheader by
> just editing autoheader and chopping it out.  I think I may just have to make
> that my first new FAQ entry in 7 years!

That surgery on autoheader may not be required.

The autoheader script is part of the autoconf package.  From info autoconf
and then searching for autoheader options there is a --warn=no-obsolete
option.  Can you get that autoheader option to work with your version (2.57)
of autoconf? If so, use that option for the autoheader invocation in
bootstrap.sh, and it solves the problem.

For my Debian version 2.53 of autoconf, the autoheader warn options do not
work, but when I put in a bug report about this (yep, I decided to invoke
Irwin's rule...;-)), the Debian packager responded immediately and said to
use the Debian unstable version (2.57) of autoconf where the problem was
solved in the associated autoheader script.  I haven't had a chance to test
that, but it sounds like --warn=no-obsolete should work for you (unless
it only works for the Debian patched version).

Let me know either way so I can make the decision to upgrade to Debian
version 2.57 or not. Note, if you commit the change into bootstrap.sh, every
CVS developer who does not upgrade to 2.57 will encounter an error with that
--warn=no-obsolete option, but I think that is okay since apparently
autoconf 2.57 (and the other combination of stable versions that you found
for the autotools) are readily available.

Alan

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University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
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Re: [Plplot-devel] done for now

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
 > > BTW it's easy enough to get rid of that irritating message from autoheader by
 > > just editing autoheader and chopping it out.  I think I may just have to make
 > > that my first new FAQ entry in 7 years!
 > 
 > That surgery on autoheader may not be required.
 > 
 > The autoheader script is part of the autoconf package.  From info autoconf
 > and then searching for autoheader options there is a --warn=no-obsolete
 > option.  Can you get that autoheader option to work with your version (2.57)
 > of autoconf? If so, use that option for the autoheader invocation in
 > bootstrap.sh, and it solves the problem.

I've looked at the autoheader [perl] script again and there is no
short-circuit for the "Preach".  There's a test to see if you're using one of
the "deprecated" modes and then $msg is set up and a simple:

    print STDERR $msg;

..no way around it.  Honestly, I think autoconf/etc is a wonderful tool but
sometimes the authors put in stuff that's just plain goofy.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)

Re: [Plplot-devel] done for now

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

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> I've looked at the autoheader [perl] script again and there is no
> short-circuit for the "Preach".

Too bad.

Well, we may be in the middle of a struggle between users who want to keep
old functionality, and the autoconf guys who want to strongly deprecate that
functionality to encourage users to use different functionality which the
autoconf guys feel is superior.  So post-release, it may be worth asking on
the autoconf list (assuming such a mailing list exists) the preferred way to
do what you want.  Meanwhile, we can live with the warning messages.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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