I am happy to report that with some help from Nils Gladitz on the CMake list a long-standing PLplot issue where parallel builds of test targets (e.g., test_noninteractive) had groups of ascii nul ('\0') characters inserted into the output has now been fixed. The fix (see the log message for commit a4bada0048 for more details) was to address name clashes in the plplot_test test scripts that I had introduced more than a decade (!) ago in commit 7e39e59f2b.
Other PLplot development news is I have been using my new computer with Debian Buster installed to solve a number of issues like this current one that I have been reminded of by my recent test_noninteractive results in the build tree for the shared libraries case. For example, later today I plan to make the final commit in this series that will solve all valid warning messages that have shown up with the latest versions (from Debian Buster) of software libraries that PLplot depends on. I then plan to follow up by doing the same thing for ctest, the test_interactive target, and all major configurations and build trees covered by the comprehensive_test.sh script. Then push upstream octave and lua to fix some obvious upstream regressions I have discovered during these tests to achieve on the new computer the perfect PostScript difference reports that I was achieving on my old computer that had (very) old versions of software libraries installed from Debian Jessie. And finally, I plan to go back to the PLplot ToDo list I was pursuing before the advent of this new computer interrupted everything in a good way. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin 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