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Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

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

Maurice LeBrun writes:
 > Valerij Pipin writes:
 >  > Hi,
 >  > I've upgraded cvs. Still I had to replace plplot_config to 
 >  > plplot_libtool(otherwise nothing works).
 > 
 > Note for those who wish to continue to use plplot-config for linking programs
 > to plplot (a) in a backward compatible way, or (b) because you don't care to
 > let plplot-config drive the build, I recently added a version of plplot-config
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ugh, typo, I meant plplot_libtool :)

 > that's just a wrapper around plplot_libtool.  Only available through cvs head,
 > and no guarantees as to its suitability for your needs, etc.  Works fine for
 > me though.

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Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

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

Valerij Pipin writes:
 > Hi,
 > I've upgraded cvs. Still I had to replace plplot_config to 
 > plplot_libtool(otherwise nothing works).

Note for those who wish to continue to use plplot-config for linking programs
to plplot (a) in a backward compatible way, or (b) because you don't care to
let plplot-config drive the build, I recently added a version of plplot-config
that's just a wrapper around plplot_libtool.  Only available through cvs head,
and no guarantees as to its suitability for your needs, etc.  Works fine for
me though.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun			mj...@ga...
Lightspeed Semiconductor Corp	mj...@li...

Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

[Valerij P. <vp...@ai...>]

Hi,
I've upgraded cvs. Still I had to replace plplot_config to 
plplot_libtool(otherwise nothing works).
Building was ok after this. The tk/tcl driver is also working now. 
Don't understand what's happened. I expect everything to work on my altlinux
box as well.
Thanks,
V
Ps.
Still i'm not able to post message from my native address. Rigth now
I use my german place  to post messages to plplotlist. I wrote to plplot list 
admin but I have no reply. The problem is that our smtp server do not need 
the passwords (and user) and so it can be a source of spam but sf does not 
accept emails from such servers.

  
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 13:16, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:
> > I've upgraded the yplot form cvs.
>
> Please try this again, I have just now committed some additional changes
> (see below).
>
> > Replaced the string plplot_config to
> > plplot_libtool
>
> That should not be necessary.
>
> > and after autoconf & configure tried the make -f
> > Makefile.build. The core building  was ok.  I coudn't make demo5.i
> > {...}demo6.i.
>
> Thank you for that most useful report. I have now fixed these two yplot
> demos, and everything should work properly now.
>
> > Another problem, that was a first question yesterday, the tk driver does
> > not work. Say on the x01.i I have the tk window is opened with Error:bad
> > window pathname "plwin". I upgraded the plplot from Debian unstable
> > yesterday, now it is the version 5.2.1-9. Something is probably wrong
> > with xserver setting. I'm novice on debian and used the default settings.
>
> I suspect you haven't gotten all the Debian unstable binary packages that
> you need.  For example, the tk driver is in the package called plplot-tcl
> which you will need along with plplot-xwin and libplplot5.
>
> For my Debian woody system I just build plplot from cvs (essentially the
> results should be equivalent to a plplot-5.2.1 tarball build).
>
> For that case, I cannot confirm your error report.  For example,
> I have no problem with any of these commands from the yplot/doc directory:
>
> ../yplot -batch x01.i -dev ntk
> ../yplot -batch x01.i -dev tk
> ../yplot -batch x01.i -dev xwin
>
> Alan
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>
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> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
>
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Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debianDear

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

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:

> I've upgraded the yplot form cvs.

Please try this again, I have just now committed some additional changes
(see below).

> Replaced the string plplot_config to
> plplot_libtool

That should not be necessary.

> and after autoconf & configure tried the make -f
> Makefile.build. The core building  was ok.  I coudn't make demo5.i
> {...}demo6.i.

Thank you for that most useful report. I have now fixed these two yplot
demos, and everything should work properly now.

> Another problem, that was a first question yesterday, the tk driver does not
> work. Say on the x01.i I have the tk window is opened with Error:bad window
> pathname "plwin". I upgraded the plplot from Debian unstable yesterday,
> now it is the version 5.2.1-9. Something is probably wrong with xserver
> setting. I'm novice on debian and used the default settings.

I suspect you haven't gotten all the Debian unstable binary packages that you
need.  For example, the tk driver is in the package called plplot-tcl which
you will need along with plplot-xwin and libplplot5.

For my Debian woody system I just build plplot from cvs (essentially the
results should be equivalent to a plplot-5.2.1 tarball build).

For that case, I cannot confirm your error report.  For example,
I have no problem with any of these commands from the yplot/doc directory:

../yplot -batch x01.i -dev ntk
../yplot -batch x01.i -dev tk
../yplot -batch x01.i -dev xwin

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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debianDear

[Valerij P. <vp...@ai...>]

Dear Alan,

Thank you very much for the help.
I've upgraded the yplot form cvs. Replaced the string plplot_config to 
plplot_libtool and after autoconf & configure tried the make -f 
Makefile.build. The core building  was ok.  I coudn't make demo5.i 
It breaks on the string
plot3d,x,y,z1,3,1;  //Draws the 3D box and the first surface

and I failed on demo6.i. It breaks on the same call.
Another problem, that was a first question yesterday, the tk driver does not 
work. Say on the x01.i I have the tk window is opened with Error:bad window 
pathname "plwin". I upgraded the plplot from Debian unstable yesterday,
now it is the version 5.2.1-9. Something is probably wrong with xserver 
setting. I'm novice on debian and used the default settings.  

rgds,
V

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 09:45, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:
> > > Another problem, how to can I compile yplot? The plplot was redesigned
> > > and plplot_config.sh was disappeared.
> >
> > I must admit I have not been paying much attention to yplot recently, but
> > thank you for reminding me of this problem since I do want to keep yplot
> > reasonably maintained. There should be an easy solution to the problem
> > you have mentioned. (Use plplot_libtool instead of the old
> > plplot_config.sh. See the *installed* examples/c/Makefile for examples of
> > plplot_libtool use). I will look into this shortly.
>
> Well, the answer to your question turned out to be easy as I expected, but
> I still ended up doing a day's work because there were other things to fix
> as well.  Once again, all of the doc/x??.i examples produce identical
> results to the corresponding PLplot C examples. This includes the neat new
> yplot functionality that is demonstrated in doc/x08.i and doc/x11.i.
>
> So far I have only tested the revised yplot on Debian woody, but everything
> seems to work well.  Valerij (and anybody else with a yplot interest on
> this list), will you please give the new yplot a test on your various
> Linux/Unix platforms? You will need to follow the standard instructions for
> getting anonymous cvs access to the latest yplot changes. See
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=15416.
>
> Assuming no problems are found, I plan to release this as yplot-1.1.2
> tomorrow.
>
> 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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software
> package (plplot.org).
>
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>
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>
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>
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Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

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

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:
>
> > Another problem, how to can I compile yplot? The plplot was redesigned and
> > plplot_config.sh was disappeared.
>
> I must admit I have not been paying much attention to yplot recently, but
> thank you for reminding me of this problem since I do want to keep yplot
> reasonably maintained. There should be an easy solution to the problem you
> have mentioned. (Use plplot_libtool instead of the old plplot_config.sh. See
> the *installed* examples/c/Makefile for examples of plplot_libtool use). I
> will look into this shortly.

Well, the answer to your question turned out to be easy as I expected, but I
still ended up doing a day's work because there were other things to fix as
well.  Once again, all of the doc/x??.i examples produce identical results
to the corresponding PLplot C examples. This includes the neat new
yplot functionality that is demonstrated in doc/x08.i and doc/x11.i.

So far I have only tested the revised yplot on Debian woody, but everything
seems to work well.  Valerij (and anybody else with a yplot interest on this
list), will you please give the new yplot a test on your various Linux/Unix
platforms? You will need to follow the standard instructions for getting
anonymous cvs access to the latest yplot changes. See
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=15416.

Assuming no problems are found, I plan to release this as yplot-1.1.2
tomorrow.

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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

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

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Valerij Pipin wrote:

> Another problem, how to can I compile yplot? The plplot was redesigned and
> plplot_config.sh was disappeared.

I must admit I have not been paying much attention to yplot recently, but
thank you for reminding me of this problem since I do want to keep yplot
reasonably maintained. There should be an easy solution to the problem you
have mentioned. (Use plplot_libtool instead of the old plplot_config.sh. See
the *installed* examples/c/Makefile for examples of plplot_libtool use). I
will look into this 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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

[Plplot-general] tk/tcl driver problems on debian

[Valerij P. <vp...@ai...>]

I tried to execute the plplot demos on Debian linux
The plplot version is 5.2.1-9. I found the tk/tcl driver does not
work for me. If I execute "examples/tcl/x01c" I have
""""""""
Enter device number or keyword: 2
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"
""""""""""""
Everything is ok if I use xwin driver. Also,  I do not experience such a 
problem  on the linux box near me where it is  ALTLinux shipped with 
plplot-5.2.1 (installed  by me).  My experience in Debian is only 2-day.:-0)

Another problem, how to can I compile yplot? The plplot was redesigned and 
plplot_config.sh was disappeared. 

Best regards,
Valerij

[Plplot-general] PLplot not entering Debian testing

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

For those of you wondering why the PLplot Debian packages (latest version
5.2.1-1) did not entered testing yet and is stuck in unstable, here is the
explanation:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01880.html

In short, the Debian libpng packages have been recently reorganized and an
incompatibility problem arised between packages libgnome-dev and libgd2-dev.
The source of the problem is in the gdk-implib1 package, and I already
filled a bug report against it:

    http://bugs.debian.org/191251

-- 
Rafael

[Plplot-general] axis breaks with plplot

[Christian T. <tr...@is...>]

Hi,

is it possible to plot axis breaks with plplot?
And how can I do it, if it is possible?

Thanks,
Christian

[Plplot-general] I am pleased to announce the official release of 5.2.1

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

Consolidation of the previous changes, bug fixing, new features. For all the
details see http://plplot.sourceforge.net/announce-plplot-5.2.1.html.

On a personal note, this is the last release of PLplot that I will manage. I
have been the release manager since January 2001, and I am quite proud of
the results our team have been able to achieve by releasing stable versions
of PLplot on a fairly regular basis.  (Typical numbers of downloads for a SF
release have grown to 4000 now, but that is only part of the story for how
users can obtain PLplot so I assume the actual numbers of our users are
substantially higher than 4000.) The last two releases have dealt with three
different paradigm shifts in the way we do things, and the present release
consolidates those changes and will make it much easier for developers and
documenters to do further incremental changes.  Thus, I believe the future
of PLplot is bright indeed. However, despite this success I have become
tired of the demanding job of release manager, and it time for somebody else
to take over. Fortunately, we have a volunteer, Rafael Laboissiere from the
existing development team, and I wish him all the best in his new role. This
change will allow me to use my limited PLplot time to work on some changes
in the 3D API that will directly benefit my research (and others as well
once my improvements have been completed and donated back to the project).

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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

__________________________

Linux-powered Science
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[Plplot-general] PLplot 5.2.1 RC1 released

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

Rafael Laboissiere has spent a lot of effort removing configuration bugs and
generally polishing the configuration and library definition paradigm shifts
that I initiated with PLplot-5.2.0, and Joao Cardoso has added some
important 3D functionality for irregularly spaced data (see x21c.c). Thus,
the developers feel the new 5.2.1 version of PLplot should be a substantial
improvement on 5.2.0. Furthermore, this version has been tested by the
developers and some of our users on all platforms accessible to them, and
now it is time to extend our testing still further.  Accordingly, we are
giving you our release candidate 1, plplot-5.2.1.rc1.tar.gz, to hammer for
the next 6 days.

With luck you won't find anything, you will get to try the new PLplot a week
early, and our final release next weekend will be identical except for
version number.

If you do still find a problem, please report it to this list (not to me
personally) with clear platform information, and full output of configure,
make, and make install.

Download from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915, and
to check the download,

md5sum plplot-5.2.1.rc1.tar.gz
fc88644b44220502959511f3af9a39c7  plplot-5.2.1.rc1.tar.gz

Good luck with your testing of release candidate 1!

Alan, for the developers.
__________________________
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 affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

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

* Robert Schwebel <ro...@sc...> [2003-04-03 08:36]:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:56:25PM -0600, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
> > Unfortunately a limitation of the current system is that it won't work until
> > installed.  Perhaps this limitation will be removed eventually to some extent.
> > But as it stands after building you need to:
> > 
> > make install
> > cd <prefix>/lib/plplot<version>/examples/c
> > make x01c
> > ./x01c
> 
> Hmm, wasn't that why there is a PLPLOT_HOME variable? Normally, from a
> user's point of view, I would like to be able to test a packet locally
> before I spread it's files over my harddisk ;)

You are fully right.  The present situation is unsatisfactory, and there is
a consensus among the developers that it must be improved.  In the past, we
had a different paradigma for building the software, with all the files
being put under a tmp/ directory.  We switched to a autoconf/
automake/libtool based approach, which is expected to be superior in many
regards, but we have lost that test-without-install feature.

Well, not quite.  You can try this:

    cd examples/c
    make x01c
    PLPLOT_DRV_DIR=../../drivers PLPLOT_LIB=../../data ./x01c

This should work with the tarball that you downloaded (this is not
documented, sorry).

Otherwise, you can safely install PLplot after "./configure
--prefix=/some/dir ; make ; make install", and than later "rm -rf /some/dir"
to get rid of all the "files over the harddisk".

At any rate, a clean implementation of this test-without-install feature is
in our agenda, but we prefered not to implement this for the forthcoming
release, because it is expected to be just a bug-fixing release after 5.2.0.

-- 
Rafael

Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

[Robert S. <ro...@sc...>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:56:25PM -0600, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
> Unfortunately a limitation of the current system is that it won't work until
> installed.  Perhaps this limitation will be removed eventually to some extent.
> But as it stands after building you need to:
> 
> make install
> cd <prefix>/lib/plplot<version>/examples/c
> make x01c
> ./x01c

Hmm, wasn't that why there is a PLPLOT_HOME variable? Normally, from a
user's point of view, I would like to be able to test a packet locally
before I spread it's files over my harddisk ;)

Robert
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Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

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

* Robert Schwebel <ro...@sc...> [2003-04-01 09:46]:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: 
> > Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better
> > this next release will be!
> 
> ----------8<----------
> robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> ./configure
> [...]
> robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> make
> [...]
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/scstubs.lo
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c -o scstubs.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> mv -f .libs/scstubs.lo scstubs.lo
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile    -c -o strutil.lo `test -f 'strutil.f' || echo './'`strutil.f
> libtool: unrecognized option `-c'
> Try `libtool --help' for more information.
> make[3]: *** [strutil.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings/f77'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ----------8<----------
> 
> With --disable-f77 it compiles. 

Thank you for this valuable bug report.  Indeed, our configure logic
regarding the Fortran 77 compiler is broken, since it proceeds happily even
if no compiler is found.  I am going to fix this in CVS.

In the meantime, since you are using Debian, configuring with --enable-f77
should work for you after "apt-get install g77".

-- 
Rafael

Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

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

Robert Schwebel writes:
 > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > > Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better
 > > this next release will be!
 > 
 > ----------8<----------
 > robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> ./configure --disable-f77
 > [...]
 > robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> make
 > [...]
 > robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> cd examples/c
 > robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/examples/c> ./x01c 
 > 
 > *** PLPLOT ERROR ***
 > plInitDispatchTable: Could not open drivers directory, aborting operation
 > Segmentation fault
 > ----------8<----------

I think the problem is that you haven't done a 'make install' yet.

Unfortunately a limitation of the current system is that it won't work until
installed.  Perhaps this limitation will be removed eventually to some extent.
But as it stands after building you need to:

make install
cd <prefix>/lib/plplot<version>/examples/c
make x01c
./x01c

etc

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

Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

[Robert S. <ro...@sc...>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better
> this next release will be!

----------8<----------
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> ./configure --disable-f77
[...]
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> make
[...]
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> cd examples/c
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/examples/c> ./x01c 

*** PLPLOT ERROR ***
plInitDispatchTable: Could not open drivers directory, aborting operation
Segmentation fault
----------8<----------

System is debian unstable. 

Robert
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Re: [Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

[Robert S. <ro...@sc...>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:06AM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: 
> Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better
> this next release will be!

----------8<----------
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> ./configure
[...]
robert@ganymed:~/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331> make
[...]
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/scstubs.lo
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../libltdl -g -O2 -mieee-fp -MT scstubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/scstubs.Tpo -c scstubs.c -o scstubs.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .libs/scstubs.lo scstubs.lo
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile    -c -o strutil.lo `test -f 'strutil.f' || echo './'`strutil.f
libtool: unrecognized option `-c'
Try `libtool --help' for more information.
make[3]: *** [strutil.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings/f77'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331/bindings'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/tmp/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331'
make: *** [all] Error 2
----------8<----------

With --disable-f77 it compiles. 

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[Plplot-general] Problems with plplot-5.2.0

[Jorge L. B. A. <jba...@ec...>]

Hi:
>>
>> I go to you of the most kind way with the purpose of request your aid
>> in which to continuation I explain. I am trying to compile the PLPLOT
>> library, version 5.2.0. The operating system that I am using is MS-DOS
>> and the compiler who I am using is Borland C++ 3.1. In order to
>> compile library I use the instructions placed in
>> /plplot-5.2.0/sys/dos/bcc. Nevertheless at the time of changing to the
>> directory /plplot-5.2.0/tmp and executing the make command appears in
>> the screen of the PC the following message:
>>
>> c:\plplot-5.2.0\tmp> make
>>
>> MAKE Version 3.6 Copyright (c) 1992 Borland International
>>
>> Available memory 30785536 bytes
>>
>>      bcc -c -3 -f287 -Od -ml -P -v -w-par -DMSDOS plcore.c
>>
>> Borland C++ Version 3.1 Copyright (c) 1992 Borland International
>>
>> plcore.c:
>>
>> Error plcore.c 2289: Undefined symbol 'VERSION' in function
>> c_plgver(char *)
>>
>> ***1 errors in compile ***
>>
>> Available Memory 3856824
>>
>> **error 1** deleting plcore.obj
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you help me with this problem? I beforehand thank for the aid that
>> you can offer me. Receive you warm greetings from Puebla, Mexico
>>

[Plplot-general] We now strongly encourage testing of the latest pre-release version of PLplot

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

We are now in the final stages of the release cycle for plplot-5.2.1.  This
version has a much more refined configuration than the 5.2.0 version (thanks
mostly to Rafael Laboissiere's efforts).  The infamous 5.2.0 configuration
bug for the combination of static drivers and double precision is now fixed
as well as many more minor configuration bugs, and we also have some new
features to crow about when the time comes.

Because of this configuration refinement we expect that plplot will run on a
wider variety of platforms than the 5.2.0 release.  For example, we have had
good reports already for a limited (no octave, for example) OSF1 platform as
well as a netbsd platform where more front-end options were available (no
tcl/tk or java, but the C, C++, fortran, python and octave front ends were
all successfully tested on netbsd).

However, to make more progress in getting rid of all cross-platform
portability issues we need the active cooperation of our community to test
the pre-release versions of PLplot.  Thus, we urge you to test the
pre-release candidate that is available at
http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html that will ultimately evolve
into our first release candidate (scheduled to be released on April 12th
with the official release date for PLplot-5.2.1 scheduled for April 19th).

Warning!  The tarball version at
http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html is still changing on a daily
basis as we discover and fix minor configuration bugs.  But the two good
reports we have had recently for two different unices as well the generally
good reports we have for various Linux distributions indicates this is a
good time to encourage the PLplot community to give the pre-release versions
strong testing on as many platforms as are accessible to you.

Note, when you report successes and failures please give the full-name
(which includes the date) of the tarball.  For example, today's version has
the name plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030331.tar.gz.  Also, please describe your
platform and also state the exact configuration options that you used as
well as the configuration summary that is put out at the end of by
./configure. If you just have a short success report, I think it is
appropriate to post it here while the more interesting discussion of bugs
and their fixes should probably be posted to plplot_devel (although there
are no hard and fast rules about that).

To build PLplot from the tarball use the usual ./configure; make; make
install.  Certain aspects of the tarball have been prebuilt (as compared
with the cvs version of PLplot) so you will not need autotools, swig, or
docbook development tools to test and use this tarball.  Note a simple
test of the installed version can be made by

cd $prefix/lib/plplot$version/examples;
cd c; make; cd c++; make; cd f77; make; cd tk; make; cd ..; ./plplot-test.sh

That last script generates a large number of example plots (postscript by
default, but png, jpeg, and other file devices are available as well, see
./plplot-test.sh --help). You can also go into the c (or any other)
directory of the installed examples and try some of the examples by running
them interactively with the xwin, tk or other interactive devices.

Note that some configuration options have changed.  For example,
--with-double is the default now, and to force single-precision you must
specify --without-double.  Also, shared libraries and dynamic drivers are
the default now (in fact the python and octave front ends don't work without
shared libraries), and we recommend you turn off static libraries (as an
unnneeded waste of space and computer time) by using the --disable-static
option.  Use ./configure --help to get more extensive information about the
many configuration options that are available to you.

Good luck with your pre-release testing  The more you do, the better this
next release will be!

Alan W. Irwin on behalf of the PLplot team.
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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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Re: [Plplot-general] Problems plotting

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

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Frederick Grim wrote:

> Howdy,
>
>    I am trying to make a 3d plot and having troubles.  I have read through the online
> documentation and chunks of the plplot code base.  Here is my trouble.  I have some code
> that solves the heat eq. via forward euler and returns the array u[X][T] , 0 < x < pi , and
> 0 < t < 10.0.  Of course this values for u are between 0 and 1.  I plotted the matrix in
> gnuplot and got the correct normaly lookin' graph so the solution looks correct. The number
> of x sample points is J and the number of t sample points is N.

You should be able to adapt on of our examples to your 3D needs. Have a look
at the examples at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/index.html.  If
you click on any one of them, you will see the source code that produced it.
The source code for the examples is also located at plplot-5.x/examples/c,
and also in the installed tree at $prefix/lib/plplot5.x/examples/c.

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).

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Linux-powered Science
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[Plplot-general] Problems plotting

[Frederick G. <fg...@no...>]

Howdy,

   I am trying to make a 3d plot and having troubles.  I have read through the online
documentation and chunks of the plplot code base.  Here is my trouble.  I have some code
that solves the heat eq. via forward euler and returns the array u[X][T] , 0 < x < pi , and
0 < t < 10.0.  Of course this values for u are between 0 and 1.  I plotted the matrix in
gnuplot and got the correct normaly lookin' graph so the solution looks correct. The number 
of x sample points is J and the number of t sample points is N.  

I use the code (probably incorrect to plot)

plsdev("xwin");
plinit();
	
plenv(0.0, 12.0, 0.0, 10.0, 0, 0); // Viewport is entire subpage
	
// Set window characteristics
	
plw3d(2.0, 4.0, 3.0, -3.5, 3.5, -10.0, 10.0, -2.0, 2.0, 45.0, 30.0);
plot3d(xc, tc, u, J, N, 3, 0);
	
sleep(10);
	
plend(); 

And the plot that comes up is a big mess of lines.  Interestingly if I recompile and add
the configure switch --with-double this refuses to plot at all with the errors

*** PLPLOT ERROR ***
plenv: Invalid xmin and xmax arguments, aborting operation

*** PLPLOT ERROR ***
plw3d: Please set up 2-d window first, aborting operation

*** PLPLOT ERROR ***
plot3dc: Please set up window first, aborting operation

I have used 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and cvs with similar results.  The environment is:

OS: Linux
LIBC: glibc 2.3.1

What sections of the documentation should I read?  What am I doing wrong

Thanks,
Fred

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Re: [Plplot-general] Independence of executables from build platform

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

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 00:58, Michael Eldred wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I am working on a project that uses PLplot for 3D surface
| plotting (more info: http://endo.sandia.gov/DAKOTA) and am
| having the problem that an executable linked with
| libplplotfX.a on one platform won't execute on a different
| platform of the same type due to the dependence on external
| font files.  The error manifests itself as:
|
|
| Cannot open library file: plstnd5.fnt
| lib
| dir="/home/mseldre/export/sierra/Dakota/VendorPackages/plplot/i686-un
|known-linux/lib"
|
| *** PLPLOT ERROR ***
| Unable to open font file
| Program aborted
|
|
| As it is not practical to build the DAKOTA application from
| scratch on every platform where we'd like to run, we'd prefer
| to be able to distribute executables without this type of
| dependency.
|
| I have read through the FAQ and other available documentation
| and the only possible solution I can find it to distribute the
| font files along with the executable and have the user set a
| $PLPLOT_LIB environment variable.  This is do-able, but I'm
| writing to see if there may be other possibilities that would
| be cleaner.
|
| I am currently using an older version of PLplot (circa Sept.
| 1998, the included NEWS file says version 4.99j), so the first
| thing I tried was downloading the latest (5.2.0) to see if
| that would help.  From the distribution, it appears that this
| version is still dependent on the same external font files.
|
| So I don't know much about font management, but the desired
| solution would be something where the font support is compiled
| into the executable

- I thing that it would be be possible to put the fonts in the library 
archive, or even build them at run time, as they are generated by 
programs (see the fonts directory -- but the README does not fully 
applies anymore), but that would be a bit strange.
- A stripped library has 240KB, and the font and map files have 
277KBytes.
- the freetype library could be a solution, but then the systems where 
you want plplot to run should have the library. But the xwin driver 
that you are probably using has no support for freetype (yet -- if you 
feel that this solution is the best for you, you could add that feature 
to the driver and contribute the code :-).
- you have to "distribute" the plplot library, so why not distribute the 
fonts also and use PLPLOT_LIB?

| or, alternatively, is reliant on the locally
| supported fonts such that external fonts are not needed.  Is
| something like this available?  I looked a little at the freetype
| configure option, but couldn't find much info on what this is
| about.

try  http://www.freetype.org

Joao
|
| Thanks very much for the help,
| --Mike Eldred

[Plplot-general] Debian pkgs + RC tarball

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

[ Cross posting to plplot-general and plplot-devel.  Sorry for the
  duplicates. ]

New Debian packages for PLplot have been uploaded to the Debian unstable
distribution (a.k.a sid).  To access them, users have just to point APT to
the appropriate Debian mirror.

For those out there using the testing distribution (a.k.a sarge), the
packages are available at the PLplot website (plplot.sf.net).  Christian
Steigies is providing backported packages for Debian stable (v3.0, a.k.a.
woody).

There is also a new release-candidate tarball available.  For more
information, see:

    http://plplot.sf.net/resources

  
-- 
Rafael

Re: [Plplot-general] Independence of executables from buildplatform

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

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Eldred wrote:

> I'm trying
> to distribute an executable (DAKOTA in this case) to other platforms
> which has the PLplot library (libplplotfX.a) linked in as a graphics
> library....

Sorry, I was completely in the mindset of shared libraries, dynamic drivers,
etc., where the best solution is to distribute the installed PLplot tree (or
the parts of it which you need).  However, if you are statically linking the
PLplot library into your DAKOTA executable, then I think the simplest
solution (as you have already discovered) is to distribute the (Hershey)
font files with your DAKOTA executable and have your users set the
environment variable PLPLOT_LIB.

The other alternative you mentioned, freetype, actually works very well for
our gd driver (which implements our png and jpeg devices using the gd
library).  It does use system fonts.  However, it does not yet work with
other devices (the associated drivers will need some rewriting to use it),
and you probably don't want to limit yourself just to the png and jpeg
devices.

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).

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