Hi Alan, I will contact the Tcl+Cygwin expert about this.
Regards, Arjen > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:37 AM > To: Arjen Markus > Cc: PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] The epa_build project > > On 2013-12-09 17:09-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > I am now going to go through the same Cygwin package dissection > > process for tcl, and I will post later about what I find out in that > > case. > > The Cygwin package tarball for tcl is named tcl-8.5.11-1-src.tar.bz2 which > you can > find in any Cygwin mirror. The tcl.cygport file in there shows that the 8.5- > cygwin.patch and 8.5.10-tea-m4.patch patches are applied, and also shows the > Tcl > source subdirectory that is used is unix and not win! I don't see anything > else in that > tcl.cygport file that is relevant (at least at the present time when I am > still fairly > ignorant of Cygwin packaging procedures). > > I am pretty sure that the 8.5.10-tea-m4.patch (which appears to be only for > Cygwin > packaging backwards compatibility) is not relevant to the epa_build case so > for a > start (probably on Wednesday, see my ToDo list below) I will try the > 8.5-cygwin.patch > to see if that helps out the MinGW/MSYS case using the win subdirectory of > the tcl > source code. > (This will be my first attempt at building tcl on MinGW/MSYS.) > > Meanwhile, will you please try applying the 8.5-cygwin.patch yourself and > building tcl > (using the unix subdirectory) by hand on Cygwin? That patch appears to be > relevant > to the errors you encountered when you last attempted to build using the unix > subdirectory so I have some degree of optimism you will have complete success > with > that build. > > We should be able to update epa_build/tcl/CMakeLists.txt to codify whatever we > discover is required to get build success on Cygwin and/or MinGW/MSYS. > > To put this all in context, here is what I plan to do in the next two days in > the order > given here. > > (1) I have finished implementing a completely clean epa_build of qt4_lite > today > (which only takes 15 minutes by the way) on Linux. This is an extrmely welcome > result since it fills in the last hole (except for octave) in the epa_build > configurations > for the PLplot dependencies and enables one of our best device drivers. When > testing that build I got through most PLplot qt-related tests, but I also > discovered > some release-critical issues with the PLplot (not > epa_build) build-system for the qt components of PLplot. So dealing with > those is my > number-one priority. > > (2) Deal with the epa_build issues for pkg-config I described in my previous > post > which will require MinGW/MSYS testing which unfortunately is painfully slow > on Wine. > > (3) Deal with the epa_build issues for tcl mentioned here for the MinGW/MSYS > case > which will also be painfully slow on Wine. > > I hope to finish (1) and (2) by Tuesday, and (3) by Wednesday, but we will > see how it > goes. > > 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 > __________________________ DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
