On 2010-05-06 08:58+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > [...]in the process of testing I came across a rather strange > problem: > > (I ran on Windows XP, with the MinGW GNU compilers) > test-drv-info stops with an error of -10356462 (or something similar), > thus terminating the build. Restarting the build makes it fail again, > but now on the next device.
Hi Arjen: I presume you have done this exact test many times before on this platform. So the question on my mind is what is different about this test compared to your prior ones? For example, do you have the same issue for a PLplot release that you know you have tested before on this platform? This test replication issue is a substantial part of the value of reporting test results at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot; once you report a working test there then in future if there is some regression you will have recorded in the table the exact revision number and the exact platform that worked before for you. One other extremely puzzling thing about your report is that test-drv-info just does a subset of what the PLplot library does with dynamic devices so if it fails, the PLplot library should also fail to dynamically load the device driver. So why is test-drv-info failing while the PLplot library is (apparently) succeeding? Do the actual PLplot results you get from say the psc device look fine in a PostScript viewer or are they blank or badly rendered? 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
