On 2015-04-03 14:06-0700 Greg Jung wrote: > In Cygwin, I do use the cygwin cmake; but it isn't distributed by > cygwin, I built it from source. At one point I tried the windows > cmake from cygwin and it failed miserably.
@Greg: Thanks for that clarification. I agree that cmake built on Cygwin should work fine to build and test PLplot on Cygwin. Yet your results are different from Arjen's historical good comprehensive test results on Cygwin (where he did use the Cygwin install version of CMake). So either that difference is significant (which I agree is unlikely, but you never know), there is some CMake version issue between the CMake version you are using and the CMake version that Arjen historically used (much more likely), something is wrong with your additional setup on Cygwin (e.g., environment variables that you set that might interfere with our testing framework, also fairly likely), or else there is some comprehensive testing regression for PLplot for the Cygwin platform. @Arjen, Phil, and Jim: As release manager, that latter possibility of a regression in comprehensive testing on the Cygwin platform really concerns me, and I ask at least one of you guys to confirm/deny that possibility by simply running scripts/comprehensive_test.sh on Cygwin with appropriate environmental variables set (ideally with a "source" script that you run from using the bash "source" command to keep everything easily and automatically reproducible) to setup the Cygwin platform for the PLplot build and test. N.B. I emphasize sourcing a "source" script from bash and running scripts/comprehensive_test.sh as opposed to piece-meal tests done by hand since (a) the script result should be completely automated and reproducible if you have set up the platform properly, and (b) comprehensive testing is so much more powerful than piece-meal tests. So I would appreciate hearing from any of you quickly if you are in a good position to run that script. Meanwhile, I am going to continue with the release process culminating (I hope this weekend) with starting scripts/comprehensive_test.sh for the MinGW/MSYS/Wine case. That result will take roughly 3 days to complete (since Wine startup of each command is so much slower than what happens for Microsoft Windows). Once I have a good comprehensive test result on MinGW/MSYS/Wine (likely Tuesday at the earliest) I plan to go ahead with the release unless one of you confirms Greg's result that running scripts/comprehensive_test.sh no longer works on Cygwin. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
