On 2011-01-03 10:37-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > I'm slowly getting back to some plplot development. Since my last involvement with plplot, I have received a new computer with Mac OS X 10.6.5 (aka Snow Leopard) and a 64 bit processor (Intel Core i5). I noticed a few issues when building plplot on this new system. I'm documenting them all here for posterity, though I have a few questions mixed in. Apologies in advance for the lengthiness.
Hi Dave: Thanks for your continued strong interest in PLplot. I cannot help you with specifics on the build-system issues you have brought up because I don't have access to Mac OS X myself, but my general feeling is that our developers with access to that platform (i.e., Hazen, Werner, and Jerry) all have different methods of avoiding build-system issues like you have discovered on that platform. Instead, of such a "avoidance" approach like you what I would like to see is a PLplot build system for Mac OS X that builds (or drops with an explanatory message if the environment is not right) the components of PLplot just as smoothly as it does on Linux. Therefore, I urge all of you to work together toward achieving that goal. Dave, that probably means you are going to have to learn more cmake logic, but that is pretty straightforward, and enhanced CMake logic skills are well worth having for developers these days since CMake is used to build so many different software packages. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
