On 2015-04-04 23:11-0700 Greg Jung wrote: > afaict these environment variables are essential for plots: > > PLPLOT_DRV_DIR=/usr/local/lib/plplot5.10.0/drivers > PLPLOT_HOME=/usr/local/share/plplot5.10.0/ > > DRV_DIR for dynamic loading, to get the driver_info files (.dll files > are to be pick > up in PATH) and PLPLOT_HOME for support files:
Our build system has long (since 2000 or so) superseded those variables which are leftovers from the days when we essentially had no build system at all. So setting those varaiables should _never_ be needed. For example, I don't use them for any of my successful comprehensive testing of PLplot on the Linux and MinGW/MSYS platforms. Furthermore, they could introduce problems for your comprehensive testing issues on Cygwin. For example, the comprehensive testing script uses its own distinct build tree and install tree so using those variables to point to results from an entirely different install tree could introduce inconsistencies and also pollute build-tree results with install-tree results. So my strong advice is to drop both PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_HOME completely on all platforms with the possible exception of the advice Arjen gave to work around what I consider to be a bug in recent classical MSYS. My guess is you are following some severely dated documentation that still mentions PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_HOME. Could you tell me where that documentation is so I can update it to the post-2000 era? Thanks very much for including the script output in the tarball. The error occurred in the first attempt to run make. So if you look at make.out it obviously has something to do with cairo so try removing all the cairo device drivers from the test (using -DDEFAULT_NO_CAIRO_DEVICES=ON which is much more convenient than setting all those -DPLD variables assocated with the many different cairo devices to OFF) and run the script again. 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
