My personal development goal for this release is to get a clean comprehensive test of epa_build results both on Linux and MinGW/MSYS. So far (aside from the known propagation issues with OCaml) the results of a somewhat limited version of the test have looked good on PLplot. However, on MinGW/MSYS this comprehensive test fails at run time with a return code of 3 for the installed Ada examples. I encountered this same test failure before when I hand-tested 5.9.11 on MinGW/MSYS, and it is good to know the recently updated (revision 12946) comprehensive test script finds the problem as well.
Ada example builds are quite complex with many different directory locations pointed to by various flags. My plan for tomorrow is to do such a build by hand using the build-tree locations for everything. And assuming that works (like it does for actual build-tree tests for MinGW/MSYS) gradually change over all locations to the install-tree counterparts until I run into the build issue that is causing the return code of 3 at run time. If the MSYS version of strace worked, that would likely be an even quicker way to solve this issue. But currently I have not been able to get it to work so I have a query into the MinGW mailing list about that issue. So that is the status of what I am working on currently. I also encourage both Arjen and Andrew (who have both told me they plan some bug fixing between now and the 5.10.0 release) to give progress reports and updated plans from time to time here so I don't get surprised by anything they do. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
