plplot-general

[Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

[Andrew S. <us...@an...>]

Hi all -

I tried to install plplot today and encountered some difficulties.  The
only  version of PLplot I found on the source code link
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 is 5.7.3. 
However, the main plplot page indicates that 5.7.3 is the development
branch and that 5.6.1 is the last stable release.  Is there a link to
5.6.1 anywhere?  I am having trouble compiling 5.7.3, so if this is now
a stable branch I'll follow up with another question.


Thanks in advance,

Andrew

Re: [Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

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

On 2007-05-19 23:49-0400 Andrew Schein wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I tried to install plplot today and encountered some difficulties.  The
> only  version of PLplot I found on the source code link
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 is 5.7.3.
> However, the main plplot page indicates that 5.7.3 is the development
> branch and that 5.6.1 is the last stable release.  Is there a link to
> 5.6.1 anywhere?  I am having trouble compiling 5.7.3, so if this is now
> a stable branch I'll follow up with another question.

Hi Andrew:

Thanks for your question about access to old releases.  After some
investigation I discovered that SF has rearranged the whole download
area for PLplot (and presumably all other projects).  In general, to get
access to any older release you have to search for it (go to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot, click on the download menu, and click
on the search function there).  For example, to access all our recent
releases (including 5.6.1), specify search dates from 2006 to 2008.

However, that general mechanism is pretty clumsy so I have taken advantage
of additional new SF download functionality and created a customized
download page including access to all files from 5.7.3, 5.6.1, and also the
historic libcd release (that special library is still relevant because it is
used for the cgm device).  Once I created the special download page for one
platform, I could copy it to all other platforms.  So now in the download
menu, you have a choice of Default, Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux platforms,
but currently they are all the same.  (Later, if we decide to do windows
binary releases, they will be different.)

Following the above directions, 5.6.1 should now be readily available, but I
should mention that 5.7.3 seems to work well for everybody that has
downloaded it (1000 downloads since the end of March), is easy to build, and
is very similar to what our next stable release (5.8.0) will probably be
like.  Thus, I believe it would be a mistake for you to give up on 5.7.3.

In particular, 5.7.3 includes lots of new PLplot goodies including our
recommended new CMake-based build system which has a lot of advantages both
for developers and users.  I suggest you follow the directions at
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki to build and install 5.7.3.  If you run
into any trouble with those directions, then post any problems to this list,
and we will take it from there.

Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin

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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

[Andrew S. <us...@an...>]

>
>
> In particular, 5.7.3 includes lots of new PLplot goodies including our
> recommended new CMake-based build system which has a lot of advantages
> both
> for developers and users.  I suggest you follow the directions at
> http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki to build and install 5.7.3.  If
> you run
> into any trouble with those directions, then post any problems to this
> list,
> and we will take it from there.
>

Hi Alan and Simon-

Thanks for your responses.  I have been following the instructions on
the plplot_wiki  you describe, but have the following error:

ake[2]: Entering directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
/home/aschein/apps/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/CMakeFiles 53
[ 54%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o
/usr/bin/gcc  -Dgd_EXPORTS   -fPIC -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/include -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/include   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I/usr/include -o drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o   -c /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c
/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c: In function `plD_init_png_Dev':
/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: `smooth_text' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
make[1]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Thanks,

Andy

Re: [Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

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

On May 20, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Andrew Schein wrote:

>> In particular, 5.7.3 includes lots of new PLplot goodies including  
>> our
>> recommended new CMake-based build system which has a lot of  
>> advantages
>> both
>> for developers and users.  I suggest you follow the directions at
>> http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki to build and install 5.7.3.  If
>> you run
>> into any trouble with those directions, then post any problems to  
>> this
>> list,
>> and we will take it from there.
>>
>
> Hi Alan and Simon-
>
> Thanks for your responses.  I have been following the instructions on
> the plplot_wiki  you describe, but have the following error:
>
> ake[2]: Entering directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/ 
> build_dir'
> /home/aschein/apps/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /home/aschein/ 
> work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/CMakeFiles 53
> [ 54%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o
> /usr/bin/gcc  -Dgd_EXPORTS   -fPIC -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/ 
> plplot-5.7.3/include -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/ 
> build_dir -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/ 
> include   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I/usr/include -o drivers/CMakeFiles/ 
> gd.dir/gd.o   -c /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c: In function  
> `plD_init_png_Dev':
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error:  
> `smooth_text' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error:  
> (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: for  
> each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/ 
> build_dir'
> make[1]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/ 
> build_dir'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

I believe that this error occurs because you a recent version of GD  
but you don't have the Freetype library installed. If you do not need  
the GD drivers you can turn them off (png, jpeg, gif), or  
alternatively, you can install the Freetype library.

This problem has come up before:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=55E57839- 
CEC1-44AA-921B-0FF524072008%40mac.com&forum_name=plplot-devel

However we don't seem to have fixed it yet. There is a logic problem  
in drivers/gd.c, plD_init_png_Dev(), where the variable smooth_text  
is defined only if the Freetype library exists. However, later in the  
subroutine (line 434) we assume that this variable will exist if the  
GD library exists.

best,
-Hazen

Re: [Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

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

On 2007-05-20 14:54-0400 Andrew Schein wrote:

> Hi Alan and Simon-
>
> Thanks for your responses.  I have been following the instructions on
> the plplot_wiki  you describe, but have the following error:
>
> ake[2]: Entering directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
> /home/aschein/apps/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/CMakeFiles 53
> [ 54%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o
> /usr/bin/gcc  -Dgd_EXPORTS   -fPIC -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/include -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/include   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I/usr/include -o drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o   -c /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c: In function `plD_init_png_Dev':
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: `smooth_text' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
> make[1]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Andrew Roach has just made a fix for this bug in the svn trunk version of
PLplot, and this version continues to work for me (although I don't have
the combination of GD version and lack of freetype that triggered the
bug that Andrew Schein encountered.)

Andrew (Schein), would you be willing to try the svn trunk version to see
whether it works for your situation with a modern GD version and no freetype
installed?  From my experience the svn trunk version is currently just as
stable as our last development release with additional bug fixes such as
Andrew's. To access our svn trunk version, please follow the directions at
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=2915 (while paying attention to the
warning about accessing just the trunk unless you want to consume a lot of
bandwidth with our historical tags and branches).

Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin

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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-general] trouble installing plplot

[Andrew S. <us...@an...>]

Hi All -

Thanks for all the help.  I upgraded to the latest freetype today before
I saw this message and that did the trick.

-Andy



Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-05-20 14:54-0400 Andrew Schein wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan and Simon-
>>
>> Thanks for your responses.  I have been following the instructions on
>> the plplot_wiki  you describe, but have the following error:
>>
>> ake[2]: Entering directory
>> `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
>> /home/aschein/apps/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report
>> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/CMakeFiles 53
>> [ 54%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o
>> /usr/bin/gcc  -Dgd_EXPORTS   -fPIC
>> -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/include
>> -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir
>> -I/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir/include  
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I/usr/include -o drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o  
>> -c /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c
>> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c: In function
>> `plD_init_png_Dev':
>> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error:
>> `smooth_text' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: (Each
>> undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> /home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/drivers/gd.c:432: error: for
>> each function it appears in.)
>> make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
>> make[1]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/all] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/aschein/work/extlib/plplot-5.7.3/build_dir'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Andrew Roach has just made a fix for this bug in the svn trunk version of
> PLplot, and this version continues to work for me (although I don't have
> the combination of GD version and lack of freetype that triggered the
> bug that Andrew Schein encountered.)
>
> Andrew (Schein), would you be willing to try the svn trunk version to see
> whether it works for your situation with a modern GD version and no
> freetype
> installed?  From my experience the svn trunk version is currently just as
> stable as our last development release with additional bug fixes such as
> Andrew's. To access our svn trunk version, please follow the
> directions at
> http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=2915 (while paying attention to the
> warning about accessing just the trunk unless you want to consume a
> lot of
> bandwidth with our historical tags and branches).
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
> 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the
> Loads of
> Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
> (lbproject.sf.net).
> __________________________
>
> Linux-powered Science
> __________________________
>
>