Re: [Plplot-devel] Was Re: [Plplot-general] plplot on mac osx with macports +no_x11

2008-12-14 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 21:54:49 (-0800) Alan W. Irwin writes: > > [Alan wrote] > >> Our CMake-based build system looks for X, but if it is not present > >> the build > >> system sets certain CMake variables which are then used to > >> automatically > >> exclude the X-dependent c

Re: [Plplot-devel] Initial patch for the recently discovered xfig.c bug

2008-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Thanks, Terrence, for that most useful explanation. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.1 web page issues

2008-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-12-14 20:53-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > When I try to build the webpage following the instructions I get the > following directory structure: > > debian ~/public_html/plplot : ls > htdocs > debian ~/public_html/plplot : cd htdocs/ > debian ~/public_html/plplot/htdocs : ls >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Initial patch for the recently discovered xfig.c bug

2008-12-14 Thread trc
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2008-12-14 14:02-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> [...]This patch is only part of the story. > > --- drivers/xfig.c 2008-12-14 14:40:29.0 -0800 > +++ drivers/xfig.c~ 2008-12-14 12:31:45.0 -0800 > @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ > flushbuffer(PLStream *pls) >

[Plplot-devel] FYI release ChangeLog

2008-12-14 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, On the off chance that someone looks, I had to trim the ChangeLog portion of the Release Notes for the 5.9.1 release due to the fact that Sourceforge has a 256000 byte maximum. This only allowed me to capture about 2/3rds of the changes since 5.9.0. Yet another reason to release a

[Plplot-devel] 5.9.1 web page issues

2008-12-14 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hi Alan, When I try to build the webpage following the instructions I get the following directory structure: debian ~/public_html/plplot : ls htdocs debian ~/public_html/plplot : cd htdocs/ debian ~/public_html/plplot/htdocs : ls docbook-manual examples-data I can't find any page the seems t

[Plplot-devel] PLplot 5.9.1 is now available

2008-12-14 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, The 5.9.1 development release of PLplot is now available. This release includes large number of improvements from 5.9.0, of which the following is a brief list: 1) A new PLplot function, plimagefr. 2) Improvements to the cairo driver family. 3) wxWidgets driver improvements. 4) pdf dri

Re: [Plplot-devel] Initial patch for the recently discovered xfig.c bug

2008-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-12-14 14:02-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]This patch is only part of the story. --- drivers/xfig.c 2008-12-14 14:40:29.0 -0800 +++ drivers/xfig.c~ 2008-12-14 12:31:45.0 -0800 @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ flushbuffer(PLStream *pls) { PLDev *dev = pls->dev; - int

[Plplot-devel] Initial patch for the recently discovered xfig.c bug

2008-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-12-14 02:51-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...]I had to turn off the -dev xfig test > because of a spectacular error (first time I have ever seen a glibc > backtrace!) generated by example 27 for that device. I have looked into this error with gdb, and the problem is the bufflen and count wer

[Plplot-devel] My pre-release testing is completed

2008-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hazen, please go ahead with the release today (Sunday). My testing is completed and Werner and Andrew have also finished their testing. The longer story about my testing is as follows. I tested three configurations: (1) shared library/dynamic devices, (2) shared library/static devices, and (3) s