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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-01-18 19:32:41
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So far so good: (1) I have rebuilt the documentation, spot-checked it, and installed it on the live website. (2) I have tagged the current CVS as v5_2_0_rc1 which gives me a nice option to ignore or include any commits done by other developers today. The next step is to put together a script to build the tarball. I am going with a script for the first time because the tarball build it is getting more complicated with execution of bootstrap.sh, building all the pre-built interfaces with swig plus the stuff I did before. Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-01-19 00:44:52
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The next step is to put together a script to build the tarball. I am going > with a script for the first time because the tarball build it is getting > more complicated with execution of bootstrap.sh, building all the pre-built > interfaces with swig plus the stuff I did before. OK. that step is done, and the resulting tarball builds okay on my Debian system, but plplot-test.sh revealed a problem with at least one octave example (which I have informed Joao about). Also, there was a problem with one python example which I have now fixed. So if I exclude octave, all postscript results build fine now. So I will move forward with the next step (making rpm's on RH7.3) and hopefully Joao will get the octave bug fix in shortly. Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-01-19 05:07:36
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The octave example problem is now fixed thanks to some quick work from Joao. I have just completed a whole host of tests of various device drivers. The png, jpeg, cgm, and plmeta devices give perfect results as far as I can see. There are some 285 plot pages to look at for _each_ so bear with me if I missed something minor. There is a legend sizing problem for some of the experimental "p" octave examples for png (and others), but that is nothing new. I expect raw device coordinates are being used in those examples (which will vary from device to device) rather than normalized device coordinates or world coordinates. I hope those "p" example legends get changed over to some sort of normalized device coordinates so this will no longer be a problem. However, Joao, if some sort of normalized device coordinates are already being used, please let me know and we should follow up on this further to see why we are getting device-dependent legend size results for those examples. The cgm results are particularly noteworthy in how fast they are produced, and how nice they look afterward. It is just a real shame that that absolutely free (libcd is a public domain software library) format has never gotten much mindshare in the Linux community. I guess it just works too easily, and people pay attention to other things that have constant problems....;-) Some of the poorly supported drivers look, well, poorly supported. I only did a few spot checks for gnome, xfig, and pbm. I noticed some rendering problems (gnome, xfig), colour map problems (xfig), and extremely bad resolution (pbm). Again, however, I don't think anything new has cropped up (i.e, the situation is not worse than 5.1.0) so I will continue. The next step (as I said before, but I forgot how many plots I had to look at before I could get to it), is making the rpm (which will test the install relocatibility of the new configuration scheme). I will start that early tomorrow after I get some sleep. Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-01-19 19:52:58
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I have run up against an libtool bug. It does not honor the DESTDIR variable that is supposed to make packages install-relocatable (so you can install in a temporary staging area). This was reported as a bug last February so the fix may be in later versions of libtool than the old version that is on my Debian system. Anyhow, I am going to install from scratch the combination of versions of autotools that Maurice found would work, and see whether that solves the problem. Maurice, are there any gotcha's that you remember for the versions of autotools packages that you installed? Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
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From: Maurice L. <mj...@ga...> - 2003-01-19 20:46:13
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Alan W. Irwin writes: > I have run up against an libtool bug. It does not honor the DESTDIR variable > that is supposed to make packages install-relocatable (so you can install in > a temporary staging area). This was reported as a bug last February so the > fix may be in later versions of libtool than the old version that is on > my Debian system. > > Anyhow, I am going to install from scratch the combination of versions of > autotools that Maurice found would work, and see whether that solves > the problem. > > Maurice, are there any gotcha's that you remember for the versions of > autotools packages that you installed? No gotcha's that I can recall. Versions of tools I'm working with: autoconf 2.57 automake 1.7 swig 1.3.17 libtool 1.4.3 tcl 8.3.2 tk 8.3.2 itcl 3.2 blt 2.4u -- Maurice LeBrun mj...@ga... Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST) |
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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-01-20 05:34:14
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Good news: the psc and plmeta results are identical between the Debian and RH 7.3 systems for the C, fortran, C++, python, tcl, and octave front ends. png and jpeg results were completely different, but I attribute that to the completely different libgd versions on the two systems. I did no interactive testing on the RH7.3 system. That completes my RH 7.3 testing. Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
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