I actually thought I did the right thing when I installed 5.7.2. But for a sanity check I just re-did everything from scratch with the same results.
I made a new directory at /usr/local/plplot_run_ccmake_from_here and cd-ed to it and ran ccmake from there. From ccmake, I specified CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to be /usr/local/plplot-5.7.2. The result was that only three non-directory items (.m files) were stored in /usr/local/plplot-5.7.2 and they are in /usr/local/ plplot-5.7.2/share/octave/site/m/PLplot. Also, a whole lot of stuff was stored in /usr/local/ plplot_run_ccmake_from_here and another whole lot of stuff was stored in subdirectories of /usr/local, and therein lies the problem because as you said /usr/local was where I installed 5.5.3 and is also the default for some other things that I have installed. (It seems like a dumb policy to put everything side by side so I'm wondering why it's so popular.) Here is the configuration info from ccmake that I set up. As you can see, I set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to /usr/local/plplot-5.7.2 but to my eyes the next few lines indicate pending trouble. Summary of CMake build system results for PLplot Install location variables which can be set by the user: CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: /usr/local/plplot-5.7.2 CMAKE_INSTALL_EXEC_PREFIX /usr/local CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR /usr/local/bin CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR /usr/local/share CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR /usr/local/lib CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR /usr/local/include CMAKE_INSTALL_INFODIR /usr/local/share/info CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR /usr/local/share/man Derived install location variables: DATA_DIR /usr/local/share/plplot5.7.2 LIB_DIR /usr/local/lib INCLUDE_DIR /usr/local/include/plplot BIN_DIR /usr/local/bin TCL_DIR /usr/local/share/plplot5.7.2/tcl DRV_DIR /usr/local/lib/plplot5.7.2/driversd DOC_DIR /usr/local/share/doc/plplot MAN_DIR /usr/local/share/man INFO_DIR /usr/local/share/info Other important CMake variables: CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME:Darwin UNIX:1 WIN32: APPLE:1 MSVC:(MSVC_VERSION:) MINGW: MSYS: CYGWIN: BORLAND: WATCOM: SWIG_FOUND:0 PERL_FOUND:YES X11_FOUND:1 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: CMAKE_C_COMPILER CMAKE_C_FLAGS:/usr/bin/gcc CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:/usr/bin/c++ LIB_TAG:d ENABLE_DYNDRIVERS:ON DEVICES_LIST: aqt;mem;null;pbm;plmeta;ps;svg;tk;tkwin;xwin DRIVERS_LIST: aqt;mem;null;pbm;plmeta;ps;svg;tk;tkwin;xwin Library options: BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:ONPL_DOUBLE:ON In fact, things were installed in the /usr/local tree instead of /usr/ local/plplot-5.7.2 as I expected. Here are a few indicative lines from /usr/local/plplot_run_ccmake_from_here/install_manifest.txt: /usr/local/include/plplot/plConfig.h /usr/local/include/plplot/plDevs.h /usr/local/lib/libplplotd.dylib /usr/local/lib/libplplotd.9.dylib /usr/local/lib/libplplotd.9.2.1.dylib /usr/local/share/plplot5.7.2/cglobe.map /usr/local/share/plplot5.7.2/globe.map Jerry On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-03-07 03:42-0700 Jerry wrote: > >> I just installed 5.7.2 whereas my previous installation was 5.5.3. >> How do I get rid of the old versions of everything now that they >> exist in directories alongside the new version? Or should I have >> uninstalled the the old version before installing the new version? Or >> should I just ignore the problem? > > Hi Jerry: > > In general it is not a good idea to mix versions together with the > same > install-tree prefix. So specify unique install-tree prefixes > (using the > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cmake option) for each different version you > want to > keep. Without doubt, -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is the most important > cmake > option, and you should use it every time you invoke cmake. > > Furthermore, suppose you have installed 5.7.2 in the past with the > unique > install-tree prefix /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_install. Now you may not > recall the exact configuration you had for that install so that old > install > tree might be filled with plplot files that are irrelevant (or > which may > even interfere) with your new 5.7.2 install. Of course, one way to > avoid > this stale install file problem is to use a separate install tree > prefix > > (e.g., > /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installa > /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installb > /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installb > ...) > > for each separate PLplot-5.7.2 configure, build, and install that > you do. > Probably a more practical course when you are rebuilding and > reinstalling a > particular version of PLplot is simply to remove the whole install > tree > (e.g., with the rm -rf command) before each invocation of "make > install". > Such convenient wholesale removal is only possible because you used > a unique > install-tree prefix such as /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_install. (If > you had > used a generic install prefix such as "/usr/local", then normally > there > would be other files from non-PLplot installs that are mixed into > that tree > which you would not want to remove.) > > Of course, that still leaves the question of what to do about your > current > bad situation with various PLplot versions mixed together (possibly > with > non-PLplot files) into the same install tree. If you built and > installed > PLplot-5.5.3 using the old ./configure; make; make install trio of > commands, > then there is also a "make uninstall" command available to you. > However, I > would only use that in an emergency (such as this) since blindly > removing > files without reviewing them is considered to be dangerous. For modern > PLplot, there is no "make uninstall" command for exactly this reason. > Instead, there is a manifest of what was installed in > install_manifest.txt. > Once you have looked at that list and are satisfied that removing > all those > files will cause no harm, then you can conveniently go ahead with such > removal with, e.g., > > rm `cat install_manifest.txt` > > Alan > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
