On Jul 4, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2008-07-04 03:36-0700 Jerry wrote:
>
>> On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>>> The 2.6.0 issues:
>>>
>>> I have just now (revision 8497) put in a bug fix recommended by
>>> Brad King
>>> (both for branches/test_cmake/test_ada and trunk) which solves all
>>> 2.6.0
>>> issues for a static build of the Ada libraries.  However, there are
>>> remaining 2.6.0 rpath issues for the build tree that do not occur
>>> for 2.4.8.
>>> Those issues currently screw up the 2.6.0 ctest of the Ada examples
>>> (unless
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to work around them), but do not affect the
>>> install-tree tests of Ada.
>
> Clarification: this part of this old quoted message from me should be
> ignored since CMake 2.4.8 and 2.6.0 Ada language support is fine  
> now on
> the Debian testing platform accessible to me. However, please use
> CMake-2.6.0 specifically for Ada from now on to be sure that there  
> are no
> CMake-2.6.0/Ada language support issues on any platform.  (Also,  
> you should
> be using CMake-2.6.0 in general since we don't want any surprises  
> when we
> officially switch to it.)
>
>>>
>>> General Ada issues occurring for both 2.4.8 and 2.6.0:
>>>
>>> (1) Example 19 generates the following run-time error message:
>>>
>>> raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow (or erroneous memory access)
>>>
>>> This is for both the thick and thin 19th examples built on Linux
>>> with gnatmake
>>> (installed with the Debian testing 4.1.2-8 version of gnat-4.1):
>>>
>>> Jerry, I hope you also see that STORAGE_ERROR on Mac OS X so
>>> that you can debug it locally rather than remotely through me.
>>>
>>> Because of this error I had to temporarily remove example 19 from
>>> plplot_test/test_ada.sh.cmake and examples/ada/Makefile.examples.in.
>
> I just checked that this example 19 issue is still open for the  
> gnat-4.1
> that is accessible to me debian testing.  In order to figure out  
> what to dow
> We need gnat-4.3 Linux testing from those (Debian unstable,  
> Fedora?) who
> have access to gnat-4.3 on Linux.
>
>>>
>>> (2) examples 2, 5, 12, 16, and 18 give different results than the
>>> corresponding C examples.  Perhaps there are enough of these
>>> differences
>>> now so that Jerry can spot the reason(s) for them.  Ultimately, we
>>> want
>>> no differences between the Ada and C results for the standard
>>> examples.
>>
>> Ada example 18 gives the same results on my machine as C 18. How many
>> differences are you seeing? Or what are the visible differences?
>
> Here is the report for my Debian testing platform since your recent  
> fixes.
>
> example 2 and 18 are now fine.  The remaining differences are in  
> examples 5,
> 12, 16, and 29.  Here are the details. Example 5 still shows a colour
> problem.  Example 12 replaces the correct solid fill with a fill  
> that uses
> horizontal lines. For the last page for example 16 the 4th quadrant  
> of the
> polar plot is badly messed up. Example 29 has the X axis labelling
> inconsistency on the 3rd page.
>
> Jerry, you have already mentioned the example 29 problem that I  
> confirm on
> my Linux system.  Do you confirm the other three issues as I have  
> described
> them?

Yes.

I'm pretty sure that there was another color problem as in Example 5  
a while back. Either I'm remembering wrong or it disappeared.

>
> I wish you quick success with these remaining issues

Thanks. The reason they remain is that I couldn't crack them before.

> and also the
> implementation of examples 14 and 17 to complete the standard  
> examples.
> Examples 14 and 17 are not used by ctest or the static install-tree  
> tests,
> but they do supply useful additional interactive install-tree tests  
> of the
> Ada interface to PLplot and also test unique parts of the API for  
> the Ada
> interface to PLplot.  You run them by running, e.g.,
>
> ada/x14a
>
> in the install tree examples and comparing with the corresponding run
> of
>
> c/x14c.  And similarly for the 17th example.
>
> Alan
>

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