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Re: [Plplot-general] Consistent results with Postscript driver

[Henning T. <pl...@he...>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I stack plots (vertically and horizontally with arbitrary spacing between
> them including zero space) using the plvpor command.
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/plvpor.html .

It is certainly worth to add a hint about this alternative to plssub. I
thought that after successfully dividing the page it shouldn't be problem
to adjust spacing or other layout features.

> Instead of fiddling with sub-pages, I use plvpor on a single page. For
> typical results, see freeeos.sf.net/coulomb.pdf.

Hm, you have labelled the axes with postscript characters (Times font?).
Something I couldn't manage, too, so far.

I do not understand what on
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/output-drivers.html#postscript-driver
 is meant with "text: Use Postscript text (0|1); default 1", but I guess
it has something to do with the Times font issue.

[Plplot-general] Re: Consistent results with Postscript driver

[Henning T. <pl...@he...>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I stack plots (vertically and horizontally with arbitrary spacing between
> them including zero space) using the plvpor command.
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/plvpor.html .
> Instead of fiddling with sub-pages, I use plvpor on a single page. For
> typical results, see freeeos.sf.net/coulomb.pdf.

Ok, and how can I specify the total size of the page?

> Also, I use the -portrait option for postscript plots to preserve character
> aspect ratios for rotation from the default postscript landscape mode to
> portrait mode.

I'll try that. Yes I was also annoyed that the orientation was quite
arbitrary ...

Re: [Plplot-general] Consistent results with Postscript driver

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

On 2005-10-07 17:36+0200 Henning Thielemann wrote:

>
> I like to generate several plots in Postscript format for inclusion in a
> LaTeX document. I have problems to produce predictable results, e.g. I
> like a constant character size, constant line width and an appropriate
> size of plots. E.g. in one case I have a single plot, in another case I
> have several plots in a stack (using plssub(1,n)). Of course more plots
> shall consume more space. But using the defaults PLplot tries to fits
> everything in a page with about 2:3 aspect ratio. In LaTeX I have to
> include them with different values for the "scale" option of
> \includegraphics, resulting in different line widths. If I even change the
> page aspect with plsdidev or plsdiplt then the characters are distorted.
> Another problem I have not solved so far: If several plots are stacked the
> vertical spaces between subplots are quite large.
> Eventually I could not find commands in the documentation, or even a
> suggested sequence of commands to be performed to get consistent results.
> How to achieve that?

I stack plots (vertically and horizontally with arbitrary spacing between
them including zero space) using the plvpor command.
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/plvpor.html .
Instead of fiddling with sub-pages, I use plvpor on a single page. For
typical results, see freeeos.sf.net/coulomb.pdf.

Also, I use the -portrait option for postscript plots to preserve character
aspect ratios for rotation from the default postscript landscape mode to
portrait mode.

Alan
__________________________
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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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

[Plplot-general] Consistent results with Postscript driver

[Henning T. <pl...@he...>]

 I like to generate several plots in Postscript format for inclusion in a
LaTeX document. I have problems to produce predictable results, e.g. I
like a constant character size, constant line width and an appropriate
size of plots. E.g. in one case I have a single plot, in another case I
have several plots in a stack (using plssub(1,n)). Of course more plots
shall consume more space. But using the defaults PLplot tries to fits
everything in a page with about 2:3 aspect ratio. In LaTeX I have to
include them with different values for the "scale" option of
\includegraphics, resulting in different line widths. If I even change the
page aspect with plsdidev or plsdiplt then the characters are distorted.
Another problem I have not solved so far: If several plots are stacked the
vertical spaces between subplots are quite large.
 Eventually I could not find commands in the documentation, or even a
suggested sequence of commands to be performed to get consistent results.
How to achieve that?

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[Jairo M. <bt...@in...>]

    Hola:

     I need some modifications to a simple C/GTK+-2.0 program that uses
plplot, these mods are mainly related to plplot.
 
    For anyone interested, I posted the job on:
http://rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=339023



  Thank you.

[Plplot-general] Zooming

[S V. <sve...@gm...>]

I am working on improving/extending the wxwidgets port of German Carrere
(wxPlot) and making it a wxwidget.
Freetype support and resizing are working at the moment. However, I have
problems using the zooming functionality (plsdiplz and/or plsdiplt) and I a=
m
not able to find a good example of how those functions should be used.
If I do something like:
diplz(.2,.8,.2,.8);
replot();
I end up having a blank plot (is a manual redraw necessary??)

Could someone help me with how to use the zooming functionality? Any help
will be appreciated !

Sjaak

[Plplot-general] Zooming in??

[S V. <sve...@ho...>]

Hello,
I am working on extending the wxPlot binding to PLPlot in order to make a 
general plotting widget usable in wxwidgets. After some work I got the 
freetype support and resizing to work smoothly (no flicker etc.)
However, I cannot figure out how to use the zooming functionality. According 
to the documentation I came up with plsdiplz and/or plsdiplt. But how should 
those functions be used? For example executing diplz(.2,.8,.2,.8)  followed 
by a replot() gives me an empty screen and I cannot find an examplle that 
does something like that (zoom in on a selected region of the current plot).

Any help or tip is greatly appreciated!

Sjaak

Re: [Plplot-general] Simple compile line?

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 9/20/05 10:25 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:

> On 2005-09-20 20:52-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> on 9/20/05 6:37 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:
>>> Look at the installed examples (the ones that are created in
>>> $prefix/share/plplot5.5.3/examples/f77 when your run "make install").  There
>>> is a short Makefile in that installed directory that has everything you need
>>> to know.
>>> 
>>> Alan
>> 
>> Alan,
>> 
>> I couldn't find a "short" makefile in the f77 example directory. Are these
>> the typical makefile lines (out of 951) to which you refer?
>> 
>> x06f$(EXEEXT): $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_DEPENDENCIES)
>>    @rm -f x06f$(EXEEXT)
>>    $(F77LINK) $(x06f_LDFLAGS) $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_LDADD) $(LIBS)
>> 
> 
> Nope.  I guess you misunderstood what I said above which I now realize was
> terse.  To expand on that do run ./configure with an install prefix of your
> choice.  (This can be any convenient _empty_ directory under your home
> directory.) Do run "./configure --prefix=whatever", make, and "make
> install". Then look at the Makefile in the above _installed_ directory. It
> is only ~70 lines long and a good third of that is the copyright notice.
> Note the "make install" command copies everything a PLplot users needs
> (including the examples and convenient Makefiles for them) in one convenient
> location rather than having files scattered all over the build tree and
> mixed in with a lot of other files which are normally not needed by the
> PLplot user.  Note, you should put $prefix/bin on your PATH before executing
> the make command in the above _installed_ examples directory to build all
> the examples.
> 
> Alan

Alan,

Thanks. 

I went into my installed plplot examples in
/usr/local/share/plplot5.3.1/examples/f77 and copied the Makefile there to
my home directory for inspection. Yes, it is much simpler than the one in
the original directory. This should be what I need to get the job done.

The plplot examples all work, so this will also be a good prototype for my
own makefiles.

Joe

Re: [Plplot-general] Simple compile line?

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

On 2005-09-20 20:52-0600 Joe Koski wrote:

> on 9/20/05 6:37 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:
>> Look at the installed examples (the ones that are created in
>> $prefix/share/plplot5.5.3/examples/f77 when your run "make install").  There
>> is a short Makefile in that installed directory that has everything you need
>> to know.
>>
>> Alan
>
> Alan,
>
> I couldn't find a "short" makefile in the f77 example directory. Are these
> the typical makefile lines (out of 951) to which you refer?
>
> x06f$(EXEEXT): $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_DEPENDENCIES)
>    @rm -f x06f$(EXEEXT)
>    $(F77LINK) $(x06f_LDFLAGS) $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_LDADD) $(LIBS)
>

Nope.  I guess you misunderstood what I said above which I now realize was
terse.  To expand on that do run ./configure with an install prefix of your
choice.  (This can be any convenient _empty_ directory under your home
directory.) Do run "./configure --prefix=whatever", make, and "make
install". Then look at the Makefile in the above _installed_ directory. It
is only ~70 lines long and a good third of that is the copyright notice.
Note the "make install" command copies everything a PLplot users needs
(including the examples and convenient Makefiles for them) in one convenient
location rather than having files scattered all over the build tree and
mixed in with a lot of other files which are normally not needed by the
PLplot user.  Note, you should put $prefix/bin on your PATH before executing
the make command in the above _installed_ examples directory to build all
the examples.

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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] Simple compile line?

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 9/20/05 6:37 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:

> On 2005-09-20 16:29-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> As a new user of plplot, I want to try a simple command line compile of one
>> of the examples. Examination of Chapter 21 of the manual says that this
>> section needs work. I'm using a Mac with OS X 10.3.9, but, being a bash
>> shell, this should be similar to Linux. What I tried, among other things,
>> was
>> 
>> Joe-Koskis-Computer:~/Fortran_Compiles/plplot examples/f77 jakoski$ g77 -O2
>> -L/usr/local/lib/ -o x16f x16f.f -lplplotf77d
>> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
>> _pladv_
>> _plcol0_
>> _plend_
>> _plinit_
>> _plline_
>> _plpsty_
>> _plscmap0n_
>> _plvpor_
>> _plwind_
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> 
>> Does anyone have a simple command line way to compile with plplot libraries
>> and g77? The 1000 line makefile examples don't give me too many clues.
>> 
>> Thanks. Is there a document somewhere that I should read?
> 
> Look at the installed examples (the ones that are created in
> $prefix/share/plplot5.5.3/examples/f77 when your run "make install").  There
> is a short Makefile in that installed directory that has everything you need
> to know.
> 
> Alan

Alan,

I couldn't find a "short" makefile in the f77 example directory. Are these
the typical makefile lines (out of 951) to which you refer?

x06f$(EXEEXT): $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_DEPENDENCIES)
    @rm -f x06f$(EXEEXT)
    $(F77LINK) $(x06f_LDFLAGS) $(x06f_OBJECTS) $(x06f_LDADD) $(LIBS)

There must be a simpler example somewhere. The example makefile is so
obfuscated by substitutions that decoding is all but impossible.

My example (in my original post) was a feeble attempt at understanding after
studying the very same makefile that I think you suggested. Sorry, I've been
using Fortran for over 40 years, but have used the make utility (off and on)
for only for the last 10 years or so.

Could someone please suggest a simple command line compilation of something
like x06f.f? Would defining some environment variables help?

Sorry to be such a dunce.

Joe

Re: [Plplot-general] Simple compile line?

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

On 2005-09-20 16:29-0600 Joe Koski wrote:

> As a new user of plplot, I want to try a simple command line compile of one
> of the examples. Examination of Chapter 21 of the manual says that this
> section needs work. I'm using a Mac with OS X 10.3.9, but, being a bash
> shell, this should be similar to Linux. What I tried, among other things,
> was
>
> Joe-Koskis-Computer:~/Fortran_Compiles/plplot examples/f77 jakoski$ g77 -O2
> -L/usr/local/lib/ -o x16f x16f.f -lplplotf77d
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _pladv_
> _plcol0_
> _plend_
> _plinit_
> _plline_
> _plpsty_
> _plscmap0n_
> _plvpor_
> _plwind_
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Does anyone have a simple command line way to compile with plplot libraries
> and g77? The 1000 line makefile examples don't give me too many clues.
>
> Thanks. Is there a document somewhere that I should read?

Look at the installed examples (the ones that are created in
$prefix/share/plplot5.5.3/examples/f77 when your run "make install").  There
is a short Makefile in that installed directory that has everything you need
to know.

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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

[Plplot-general] Simple compile line?

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

As a new user of plplot, I want to try a simple command line compile of one
of the examples. Examination of Chapter 21 of the manual says that this
section needs work. I'm using a Mac with OS X 10.3.9, but, being a bash
shell, this should be similar to Linux. What I tried, among other things,
was

Joe-Koskis-Computer:~/Fortran_Compiles/plplot examples/f77 jakoski$ g77 -O2
-L/usr/local/lib/ -o x16f x16f.f -lplplotf77d
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_pladv_
_plcol0_
_plend_
_plinit_
_plline_
_plpsty_
_plscmap0n_
_plvpor_
_plwind_
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Does anyone have a simple command line way to compile with plplot libraries
and g77? The 1000 line makefile examples don't give me too many clues.

Thanks. Is there a document somewhere that I should read?

Joe

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 9/18/05 11:27 PM, Valery Pipin at pi...@is... wrote:

> Hello
>> On 2005-09-18 20:33-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
> <skipped>
>>> cvs checkout: cannot find password
>>> cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
>>> 
>>> OK, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.
> Check the default cvs options of your system. Also did you use the cvs from
> other projects?
>> cvs checkout: cannot find password
> Do you have the file .cvspass in your home dir? On the standard linux systems
> the options of the anonymous cvs access are saved there.
> I've just check out the plplot cvs without problems.
> I have used
> "cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot login"
> then enter and
> "cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co -P
> plplot"
> and then
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot logout
> 
> rgds,
> Valery
> 
Valery,

Thanks for the suggestion. I checked my home directory and found

-rw-------    1 jakoski  jakoski      56 18 Sep 20:10 .cvspass

So it does exist.

The only significant difference between what you did and my attempt is the
-z3 is in one of my cvs accesses and not in the other. Different server,
maybe? I copied this approach from the "Project: PLplot: CVS" page on the
PLplot website. Maybe the wording there needs some modification so that all
lines have the -z3.

In any event, after reading that I need to update automake, autoconf, and
libtool, I've decided to stay with plplot-5.3.1 for a while. With some
experimentation I found that if I run 5.3.1 with X11, I can get all the
options that I need for now. The only difference is that the newer version
of PLplot allows the use of AquaTerm without starting X11, and .eps or .pdf
files of any graphics window can be easily made. I also personally prefer
the look of AquaTerm graphics to those of X11.

Thanks to all.

Joe 

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[Valery P. <pi...@is...>]

Hello
> On 2005-09-18 20:33-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
<skipped>
> > cvs checkout: cannot find password
> > cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
> >
> > OK, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Check the default cvs options of your system. Also did you use the cvs from
other projects?
 > cvs checkout: cannot find password
Do you have the file .cvspass in your home dir? On the standard linux systems 
the options of the anonymous cvs access are saved there. 
I've just check out the plplot cvs without problems.
I have used
"cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot login" 
then enter and
"cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co -P 
plplot"
and then
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot logout

rgds,
Valery

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

Alan,

Nevermind. 

My autoconf is version 2.57 (not 2.59+) and my automake is 1.6.3 (not
1.8.5+). Too many builds/installs are required and I'll be out of sync with
the rest of the Mac world if I try to build from CVS.

I'll just wait for the next version of plplot, or, if I get in an emergency,
I'll disable octave to build.

Thanks. At least now I know the problem. No further responses necessary.

Joe


on 9/18/05 8:33 PM, Joe Koski at jko...@co... wrote:

> Alan,
> 
> Thanks for the CVS suggestion. I do want to try to preserve octave/plplot
> functionality if possible. I'm not an experienced CVS user, although I need
> to become one. Here's what I tried
> 
> Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs
> -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:cvsroot/plplot login
> (Logging in to ano...@cv...)
> CVS password: 
> 
> Here I hit enter, as the web page suggests. Then, when I tried the checkout
> command, I get:
> 
> Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs -z3
> -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co -P plplot
> cvs checkout: cannot find password
> cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
> 
> OK, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
> on 9/18/05 4:46 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:
> 
>> On 2005-09-18 14:59-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
>> 
>>> How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
>>> 5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.
>> 
>> Thanks for your report. The plparseopts error should be fixed in the CVS
>> version so it should be available to you at our next release.  However, we
>> have no date fixed for that release as of yet.  There is also the
>> possibility of you building from our anonymous read-only cvs version (see
>> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915 for the cvs instructions for
>> getting access), but building from that source involves doing lots of
>> additional infrastructure work first.  You have to build and install
>> particular versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig and run
>> cf/bootstrap.sh.  That prepares the tree as in the normal tarball, and you
>> can proceed from there with the normal build as per normal, but you may want
>> to wait for the next release instead.
>> 
>> 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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
>> for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
>> package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
>> Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
>> (lbproject.sf.net).
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>> 
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Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

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

On 2005-09-18 20:33-0600 Joe Koski wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Thanks for the CVS suggestion. I do want to try to preserve octave/plplot
> functionality if possible. I'm not an experienced CVS user, although I need
> to become one. Here's what I tried
>
> Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs
> -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:cvsroot/plplot login
> (Logging in to ano...@cv...)
> CVS password:
>
> Here I hit enter, as the web page suggests. Then, when I tried the checkout
> command, I get:
>
> Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs -z3
> -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co -P plplot
> cvs checkout: cannot find password
> cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
>
> OK, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.

I know the anonymous cvs system has worked recently for one of our other
developers, but I don't have recent experience myself with the anonymous
version of cvs so it is time for somebody else to step in and help with this
question.

Sorry I cannot be of more help myself.

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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

Alan,

Thanks for the CVS suggestion. I do want to try to preserve octave/plplot
functionality if possible. I'm not an experienced CVS user, although I need
to become one. Here's what I tried

Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs
-d:pserver:ano...@cv...:cvsroot/plplot login
(Logging in to ano...@cv...)
CVS password: 

Here I hit enter, as the web page suggests. Then, when I tried the checkout
command, I get:

Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/plplot-5.5.3-CVS jakoski$ cvs -z3
-d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co -P plplot
cvs checkout: cannot find password
cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first

OK, what am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Joe

on 9/18/05 4:46 PM, Alan W. Irwin at ir...@be... wrote:

> On 2005-09-18 14:59-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
>> 5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.
> 
> Thanks for your report. The plparseopts error should be fixed in the CVS
> version so it should be available to you at our next release.  However, we
> have no date fixed for that release as of yet.  There is also the
> possibility of you building from our anonymous read-only cvs version (see
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915 for the cvs instructions for
> getting access), but building from that source involves doing lots of
> additional infrastructure work first.  You have to build and install
> particular versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig and run
> cf/bootstrap.sh.  That prepares the tree as in the normal tarball, and you
> can proceed from there with the normal build as per normal, but you may want
> to wait for the next release instead.
> 
> Alan
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Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

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

On 2005-09-18 16:24-0700 hba...@ma... wrote:

> If you are not planning to use Octave you can configure without it
(--disable-octave) & then make should work okay. If you are then compiling
from the current CVS is a little more work, but not too bad. There is a
section in the INSTALL file that describes how to do this for OS-X under the
header "Alternative Build Instructions for OS-X". As Alan mentioned, you
will need the latest versions of GNU autoconf, automake and libtool, but you
don't have to anything re swig.

Thanks, Hazen, for mentioning --disable-octave.  I agree that is the easiest
solution assuming this user doesn't need the octave interface to PLplot.

Also, to expand on the comment about the swig requirement, swig is only
necessary if you want to build the python and/or java interface to plplot
for a freshly checked out cvs version with no stale files lying around from
previous tarball builds.

Also, note the swig-generated parts of those interfaces are prebuilt and
also all the autotools (autoconf, automake, and libtool) stuff is prebuilt
for the tarball version which is why our tarball users don't need to have
swig or the autotools 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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[<hba...@ma...>]

 On Sunday, September 18, 2005, at 03:47PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:

>On 2005-09-18 14:59-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
>
>> How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
>> 5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.
>
>Thanks for your report. The plparseopts error should be fixed in the CVS
>version so it should be available to you at our next release.  However, we
>have no date fixed for that release as of yet.  There is also the
>possibility of you building from our anonymous read-only cvs version (see
>http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915 for the cvs instructions for
>getting access), but building from that source involves doing lots of
>additional infrastructure work first.  You have to build and install
>particular versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig and run
>cf/bootstrap.sh.  That prepares the tree as in the normal tarball, and you
>can proceed from there with the normal build as per normal, but you may want
>to wait for the next release instead.
>
>Alan

If you are not planning to use Octave you can configure without it (--disable-octave) & then make should work okay. If you are then compiling from the current CVS is a little more work, but not too bad. There is a section in the INSTALL file that describes how to do this for OS-X under the header "Alternative Build Instructions for OS-X". As Alan mentioned, you will need the latest versions of GNU autoconf, automake and libtool, but you don't have to anything re swig.

It is also important that you add the switches --disable-dyndrivers and --disable-f77 when you configure. Objective-C and by extension AquaTerm has some issues with dynamic drivers. I believe that this has been resolved in "Tiger".

-Hazen

Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

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

On 2005-09-18 14:59-0600 Joe Koski wrote:

> How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
> 5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.

Thanks for your report. The plparseopts error should be fixed in the CVS
version so it should be available to you at our next release.  However, we
have no date fixed for that release as of yet.  There is also the
possibility of you building from our anonymous read-only cvs version (see
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915 for the cvs instructions for
getting access), but building from that source involves doing lots of
additional infrastructure work first.  You have to build and install
particular versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig and run
cf/bootstrap.sh.  That prepares the tree as in the normal tarball, and you
can proceed from there with the normal build as per normal, but you may want
to wait for the next release instead.

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 FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

[Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

I'm attempting to build PLplot 5.5.3 on my G5 Mac under OS X 10.3.9. The
./configure seems to complete without problems. The end of the configure
shows:

command:        ./configure  CC=gcc --enable-ltdl-convenience
host:           powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
have_x:         yes
prefix:         /usr/local
CC:             gcc
CXX:            g++
F77:            g77
LIB_TAG:        d
devices:         aqt hp7470 hp7580 lj_hpgl mem null pbm plmeta ps psc pstex
xfig xwin

Available device drivers:
static:
dynamic:        aqt.la hpgl.la mem.la null.la pbm.la plmeta.la ps.la
pstex.la xfig.la xwin.la

Compilation options:
with_debug:     no

Library options:
enable_shared:  yes             enable_static:  yes
with_rpath:     yes             with_double:    yes

Optional libraries:
with_qhull:     no              with_csa:       yes
with_freetype:  no              with_pthreads:  no

Language Bindings:
enable_tcl:     no              enable_itcl:    no
enable_cxx:     yes             enable_f77:     yes
enable_java:    no              enable_python:  no
enable_octave:  yes             enable_pdl:     no



When I "make", the makefile starts, but exits with an error:

<snip>
mkdir .libs
gcc -g -O2 -o massage massage.o  -lm
perl /Tools/plplot-5.5.3/bindings/octave/matwrap/matwrap -language octave -o
plplot_octave.cc   -stub tmp_stub \
-cpp_ignore . -cpp_ignore plplot_octave_rej.h -cpp gcc \
-E -I. -C plplot_octave.h
mv -f plplot_octave.cc tmp_plplot_octave.cc
sed 's/ string / std::string /' tmp_plplot_octave.cc > plplot_octave.cc
LD_RUN_PATH=../../src/.libs:../../lib/csa/.libs  \
    mkoctfile -v -I. -I. plplot_octave.cc -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd
`../../scripts/get-dependency-libs.sh ../../src/.libs/libplplotd.la`
g++ -c -I/usr/local/include/octave-2.1.71
-I/usr/local/include/octave-2.1.71/octave -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -I.
-I. plplot_octave.cc -o plplot_octave.o
g++ -bundle -bundle_loader /usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.71 -o plplot_octave.oct
plplot_octave.o -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd -L/Tools/plplot-5.5.3/lib/csa
-L/Tools/plplot-5.5.3/lib/csa/.libs -lcsirocsa -ldl -lm
-L/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.71 -loctinterp -loctave -lcruft -framework
vecLib -lreadline -lncurses -lm -lg2c
ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _xerbla_
/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.71/liboctinterp.dylib(single module) definition of
_xerbla_
/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.71/libcruft.dylib(single module) definition of
_xerbla_
/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib
.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib(single module) definition of _xerbla_
ld: Undefined symbols:
_plparseopts
make[4]: *** [plplot_octave.oct] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.

Joe

Re: [Plplot-general] 'class plstream' has no member named 'gvpd'

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:07:07AM -0500, Albert Kottke wrote:
> In C++, I am trying to get the viewport limits using pls.gvpd, but I get
> the error:
> 
> error: 'class plstream' has no member named 'gvpd'
> 
> using the code:
>     PLFLT x0, x1, y0, y1;
>     pls.gvpd( &x0, &x1, &y0, &y1 );
> 
> The class gvpd exists in the plstream.h header file, which I am including.
>  The funny thing is that I can use pls.gvpw and other classes without a
> problem.  Does this error reproduce for anyone else?  My current solution
> is just to use 'plgvpd' to get the viewport limits, which isn't that big
> of a deal.

Hi Albert,

I think your problem is that you don't need the & in C++. Unlike C, C++
has the idea of passing variables by reference. In the header file the
definition of gvpd is

    void gvpd( PLFLT& xmin, PLFLT& xmax, PLFLT& ymin, PLFLT& ymax );

which means that we want to pass xmin, xmax etc by reference. This means
that changes made to them in gvpd are passed back to the calling
program. To call the routine you only need do something like

     PLFLT x0, x1, y0, y1;
     pls.gvpd( x0, x1, y0, y1 );

This is equivalent to the C way of doing things, where you pass a
pointer to the variable, but it is neater. 

Let me know if this doesn't work.

The only other thing I can think of is some conflict of versions. gvpd
was only added to the C++ bindings relatively recently. It had been
overlooked in the initial conversion. If gvpw works but gvpd does not
then perhaps you are using an old version of plstream.h?

Hope this helps.

Andrew

[Plplot-general] 'class plstream' has no member named 'gvpd'

[Albert K. <al...@ac...>]

In C++, I am trying to get the viewport limits using pls.gvpd, but I get
the error:

error: 'class plstream' has no member named 'gvpd'

using the code:
    PLFLT x0, x1, y0, y1;
    pls.gvpd( &x0, &x1, &y0, &y1 );

The class gvpd exists in the plstream.h header file, which I am including.
 The funny thing is that I can use pls.gvpw and other classes without a
problem.  Does this error reproduce for anyone else?  My current solution
is just to use 'plgvpd' to get the viewport limits, which isn't that big
of a deal.

Albert

[Plplot-general] Introduction

[Orion P. <or...@co...>]

Hello,  I'm currently packaging plplot for Fedora Extras.  Packages 
should be out for FC4 shortly.  I've also posted a couple bug reports of 
problems I encounted while trying to package plplot.

Just thought I should introduce myself :-).


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Colorado Research Associates/NWRA      FAX: 303-415-9702
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Re: [Plplot-general] plplot compile errors

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2005-07-07 12:17]:

> Rafael, I am sure it is something in our Makefile.am files that needs to be
> changed to more standard form for the csiro libraries, but unless you can
> spot something by quick visual inspection, I believe the requested extra
> details from Vinod (see above) will be necessary for one of us to figure
> this out.

I do not think that the problem is on our side.  It may be that Vinod is
doing something non-conventional with --prefix and DESTDIR.  Vinod: we
need to know *_exactly_* the commands that you issued for configure,
make, and make install (i.e. we need all the arguments you gave in the
command line), as well as the full output of the commands.

-- 
Rafael