I have been systematically testing PLplot builds for any issues with blanks in the prefix of the source, build, and install trees, and generally all is well under these test conditions. However, we do have two remaining issues which are that our (external) language support for both Ada and D fails if there is a blank in the source tree prefix.
Our Ada language support comes with a simple "Hello, world" test project to test for language support issues for that language, and I have attached a tarball of that simple project so you can easily replicate this "blank in source tree" issue for yourself for at least that language. This test project works fine if the tarball is unpacked in a location without blanks in the full pathname, but fails when there is a blank in that unpacked pathname. The initial error message in that latter case is CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file: CMakeAdaInformation.cmake Such external language support (e.g., in this Ada case) must necessarily set CMAKE_MODULE_PATH to help CMake find the external language support files such as CMakeAdaInformation.cmake, and that full pathname necessarily contains a blank when the tarball is unpacked in a location with a blank in the full pathname. I thought the trouble might be that CMake just did not accept blanks in the full pathname of _any_ language support files, but I tested that case (by moving a previous CMake install location to one with a blank in its full pathname), but a simple project consisting of # Test C language support cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8.1 FATAL_ERROR) project(test_c C) had no issues under those conditions, i.e., with the C language support files in the <prefix with blank>/share/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/ directory tree. So my guess is the measures that have been used so that a blank in the fullpath name works fine for CMake language support files that are installed by CMake have not been extended to the case where CMAKE_MODULE_PATH must be used to find the language support files. If that is the issue, a fix would be appreciated. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________
test_ada.tar.gz
Description: Simple test case for Ada language support
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