On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:12:08PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2009-01-13 21:17-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> 
> > With latest fedora development and svn 9299:
> >
> > 13/ 19 Testing examples_pstex
> > Test command: /bin/bash -c
> > EXAMPLES_DIR=/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.9.1/fedora/examples\
> > SRC_EXAMPLES_DI
> > R=/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.9.1/examples\
> > PLPLOT_LIB=/builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.9.1/data/\ ./plplo
> > t-test.sh\ --verbose\ --front-end=c\ --device=pstex
>                                                  ^^^^^
> 
> Hi Orion:
> 
> I have never run ctest for -dev pstex myself.  PLD_pstex defaults to OFF
> because there are so many better POSTSCRIPT alternatives.  Did ctest of this
> device ever work properly before we put example 14 into the tests scripts?
> Does your test succeed if you drop pstex from your list of devices and deal
> with the additional octave issue you have found?
> 
> It's possible our best course of action here is to remove the pstex
> possibility from plplot-test/CMakeLists.txt or even permanently disable
> pstex rather than spending effort trying to fix that little-used device so
> that it will work with example 14.

Orion,

It's the same issue as with the xfig driver that I fixed last week. The
driver is not safe for use with multiple streams as it uses global
variables. I've now fixed this up, though it is still disabled by
default and you probably don't want to use it. pscairo and psttf offer
better alternatives. 

Andrew

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