On 2009-11-10 13:38-0500 Don Spong wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded from Mac OSX 10.5 to 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard). I've been > successfully using a Plplot installation that I got through Fink (version > 5.6.1). I use this with the Intel ifort Fortran compiler by > including `plplot-config --cflags --libs --with-f77` on the load line. > However, the 10.6.2 upgrade seems to have broken things for Plplot (see > below). I can still run codes using Plplot that were built before the > upgrade, but cannot build new versions. Any suggestions as to how to fix > this?
Hi Don: If Werner's suggestion for dealing with the immediate issue doesn't work, then I suggest you upgrade to a more modern version of PLplot. (The 5.6.1 version of PLplot that you are trying to use came out more than 3 (!) years ago). Even the latest fink version (5.8.0) is outdated so I suggest you use the latest PLplot release (5.9.5) following the build directions at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Building_PLplot. PLplot-5.9.5 has lots of great features (e.g., good-looking fonts and new powerful device drivers) compared to 5.6.1 and also should be more reliable than 5.6.1 because we now do a more careful job of testing before releases. Note, CMake (version 2.6.0 or later) is now a prerequiste for our build system, but that is easy to obtain. Also, we have dropped plplot-config altogether in favour of either (1) a pkg-config method of obtaining the flags you need to build applications that use the PLplot library or (2) a new experimental CMake-based method for building applications that use the PLplot library. Both methods are illustrated in the installed examples directory. If you have any trouble following the Mac OS X build instructions in the Wiki for PLplot-5.9.5 or building your own applications using the 5.9.5 version of the PLplot library, let us know here, and we can give you a hand. 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); 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
