On 2007-11-27 22:49-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Alan, > > Any ideas about this one? It looks like several changes were made to > get-drv-info and drivers/CMakeLists.txt between 5.8.0-RC1 and 5.8.0. Do you > think that one of them could have led to the problems that Marius is having? > > thanks, > -Hazen
Hi Hazen: Yes, we did make changes in that area, and, yes, it is possible it is causing trouble in certain special cases (just like the old method was also causing trouble in certain special cases). The fundamental issue is you have nominally the same platform, but you cannot reproduce this bug. Nevertheless, I would take it seriously since it most likely is a real bug, for Marius's particular build methods, tool chain, and platform. There is a real art to debugging build problems remotely, but you are lucky here that you have a similar platform to Marius. I suggest you try to mimic Marius's exact build method (cmake options including an in-source build if that is what he did) and tool chain (e.g., cmake version) as much as possible. Get him to tell you his exact cmake options and give you the cmake.out and make.out from a clean build, and compare it with yours. Try his exact cmake options yourself. Make sure you have the same version of the libltdl library that he does, etc. Get Marius to execute get-drv-info in several different experimental ways, and you do the same. Does any of this "art" sound familiar? :-) Good luck getting this sorted out. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
