On 2016-12-14 18:00-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
Hi AlanWhat happens if you try a Ubuntu platform with a system version of wxwidgets version = 3.0.x? Same question for a Ubuntu platform with wxwidgets version = 3.1.x?I was actually just going to do that just now, so here it goes lsb_release -a Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot-plplot cd plplot-plplot mkdir build cd buildcmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/pvicente/plplot-install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_f95:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_tcl:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_tk:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TEST=ON >& cmake.ubuntu.txt &make VERBOSE=1 test_wxPLplotDemo >& test_wxPLplotDemo.out.ubuntu.txt &
So you have the same bad result for system version of everything on Ubuntu trusty including wxwidgets-3.0.x (except for Qt5 which should not matter here). This certainly qualifies as a release-critical wxwidgets bug. And you have certainly supplied enough information that Phil should find this to be straightforward to reproduce. So if I get a communication from Phil that he is actively working on this, I will hold the PLplot release past December 22 for this. However, if he is out of e-mail contact, I won't hold the release, and we will just have to live with the fact that the fundamental wxwidgets binding just plain does not work on most Linux distros, ugh! Also, just in case any of those cmake options of yours were affecting the result I just tried here cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_f95:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_tcl:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_tk:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TEST=ON ../plplot.git >& cmake.out and make test_wxPLplotDemo >& test_wxPLplotDemo.out with the same (good) results. N.B. I have attached those two files in compressed form so you can see what is different between them and your results. (Say if you get failure there even on Debian Jessie.)
By looking at cmake.ubuntu.txt it uses this GTK+ -- Checking for module 'gtk+-x11-2.0' -- Found gtk+-x11-2.0, version 2.24.27 so, exactly the same as my CentOS, if that matters
The corresponding output here is -- Checking for module 'gtk+-x11-2.0' -- Found gtk+-x11-2.0, version 2.24.25 So you are two patch-versions later with GTK+ which I doubt matters much at all.
I also have another 16.04 ubuntu , I will try that next also, you mentioned that on Debian Jessie it's OK. so i'll try to install that or a recent Fedora on a VirtualBox to see
That's a good idea to at least make sure you can reproduce my good result on Debian Jessie. If you can do that, but get bad results for every other distro, I would begin to wonder what magic and secret elixir the Debian Jessie packagers applied to wxwidgets and GTK+ to get them to work properly together? :-) Seriously, Phil's new wxwidgets binding and device driver first started life as a wxwidgets-2.x software if I recall correctly. So it is possible that Debian Jessie has maintained better wxwidgets-2 compatibility in their wxwidgets-3 libraries than other distros. In which case to solve this, Phil would have to figure out how to modernize the wxwidgets binding and device driver so it does not rely on any wxwidgets-2.x capability at all. Do you see any use of (presumably deprecated) wxwidgets-2.x calls in our wxwidgets binding or device driver? If so, that might be a good place to start to work on this issue. Also, I obviously haven't been paying much attention to this thread before, but I do recall you were advocating some one-line "fix" with Phil for our wxwidgets-related software which I did not understand at all and which he appeared noncommittal about. But if that is all you need to get the test_wxPLplotDemo build to work on _all_ Linux distros (including Debian Jessie here), I would accept your git-formatted patch to make that one-line change you recommend as a fix for this release critical issue. But that one-liner might also be a workaround for some wxwidgets-2.x calls left in our code like I was speculating about above or some other issue so Phil may want to reverse this "fix" after the release and implement a more fundamental fix instead. 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 __________________________
cmake.out.gz
Description: cmake results on Debian Jessie
test_wxPLplotDemo.out.gz
Description: Results of test_wxPLplotDemo build on Debian Jessie
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