On 2011-08-24 16:27-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/24/2011 04:21 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> I'm wondering if this is a fatally flawed test setup in that the C example >> comparisons are pre-generated and shipped with PDL-Graphics-PLplot. I >> imagine >> some small differences between Doug's machine and mine would account for the >> discrepancy. Does this seem correct? >> > > To answer my own question, if I compile and run the x01c example on my system > I get the same as the perl output, but different then the shipped output. So > I think you need to have the test build the C output as well on the testing > machine.
I think that is a much better approach for eliminating platform differences from comparisons. That is certainly the approach PLplot uses for ctest and also the test_noninteractive target for comparing C PostScript results with those from other languages. Doug? 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
