On 2007-10-21 16:24-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 5.8.0-RC1, our test release for the 5.8.0 stable release is now
> available for download. Assuming that all is well with this release
> then the official 5.8.0 stable release should be available in about
> two weeks. Changes from the 5.7.4 release include updating the Octave
> bindings to be compatible with Octave 2.9, adjusting the Fortran95
> bindings to work with a wider array of Fortran95 compilers and fixing
> a number of bugs in the "3D" text routines plmtex3 and plptex3 (see
> example 28).
>
> As always, (1) Please refer to our wiki for the latest build and
> install instructions (http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?
> title=Main_Page) and (2) Let us know of any problems / bugs that you
> run across while installing / using PLplot.
Hi Hazen:
I just built and tested 5.8.0-RC1 with just one (known) problem on a Debian
oldstable (sarge) system with a specially built recent pango/cairo stack.
The exact cmake command line was
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/software/plplot_cvs/installcmake \
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DENABLE_java=OFF -DENABLE_ada=ON \
-DBUILD_TEST=ON -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF ../plplot_cmake >& cmake.out
I turned off java because oldstable does not have a good free java that
works with PLplot (free java versions of later Debian versions are fine). I
also turned -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF because I have python/numeric installed on
oldstable rather than python/numpy.
The installed examples seem fine for 5.8.0-RC1.
A run of plplot-test.sh in the installed examples directory
after the installed examples were built with the "make" command gave good
results for the default psc device.
Here are the ctest results:
Start processing tests
Test project /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/build_dir
1/ 10 Testing examples_c Passed
2/ 10 Testing examples_cxx Passed
3/ 10 Testing examples_f77 Passed
4/ 10 Testing examples_octave Passed
5/ 10 Testing examples_python Passed
6/ 10 Testing examples_tcl Passed
7/ 10 Testing examples_ada Passed
8/ 10 Testing examples_psttfc ***Failed
9/ 10 Testing examples_png Passed
10/ 10 Testing examples_svg Passed
90% tests passed, 1 tests failed out of 10
The following tests FAILED:
8 - examples_psttfc (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
In the above, the f95 interface to PLplot was not tested because oldstable
does not have gfortran.
The examples_psttfc failure is a known problem for my particular setup (the
special pango/cairo stack and svn version of libLASi) that apparently does
not show up for other systems.
Debian oldstable is pretty old, and I have some special libraries on top of
that already special situation so I strongly encourage the rest of our users
with access to modern Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows to give us reports
(both good and bad) on our 5.8.0 release candidate to insure we have a
forthcoming 5.8.0 stable release that works on as many popular platforms as
possible.
N.B. if there are any errors, please give the exact cmake command you used,
and the _complete_ cmake and make command output (i.e, send to the list the
compressed cmake.out and make.out files generated by
cmake -Dwhatever_cmake_options ../path/to/sourcetree >& cmake.out
make >& make.out
.) Experience shows that if you give incomplete output for just where the
error message occurs, then that is often not sufficient to debug the problem
since many aspects of the PLplot configuration (with cmake) and build (with
make) are interrelated.
Alan
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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); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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