Alan All my linux failures were on 3 different "real" machines (CentOS with personal wxwidgets 3.1 build, 2 ubuntus 14.04 16.4 from packages)
the 4th linux failure was on a debian I installed on VirtualBox. So, it's not a VirtualBox issue. -Pedro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> To: "Pedro Vicente" <pedro.vice...@space-research.org>; "Phil Rosenberg" <p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com> Cc: "PLplot development list" <plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error > On 2016-12-15 17:19-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote: > >> Hi Phil >> >> >>>> I can't help feeling that there is something that we are missing here. >>>> Given both I and Pedro have tested on Ubuntu 14.04 there must be >>>> something different between the two systems. >> >> it seems so. >> the only way to be sure is that on your side to install a completely new >> Ubuntu, or Debian on VirtualBox, and then do >> >> sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev >> >> VirtualBox can be installed on Windows or Mac (this is called the host >> system). >> I am running it on my Windows machine and I have three linux installed on >> it , ubuntu, centos, debian > > @ Phil and Pedro: > > I am beginning to wonder whether something that is being done > differently but legitimately by VirtualBox is highlighting some subtle > bug we have in the Linux wxwidgets code that doesn't happen to show any > symptoms for the non-VirtualBox'd case. > > @Phil: > > I am just going to go ahead and merge Pedro's patch (once he gets it > to me in "git format-patch" form) to SF master since it apparently > solves his "VirtualBox" issue (if we can call it that) without messing > up the Linux success we have on non-VirtualBox'ed Linux. But if you > have any qualms about his changes, feel free to either contact me > immediately (if you are not sleeping now) or ask me to revert my merge > of his work tomorrow. > > 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 > __________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
