Re: [Plplot-devel] Results for CMake-2.8.9 and default tests for Debian testing platform

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
Alan, This is good news. A lot of this has been tested by the Debian packages, but not with the current svn and not with quite the same tools (e.g. your use of gcj). On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:30:21PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Since yesterday, I have been installing software packages on my ne

[Plplot-devel] Results for CMake-2.8.9 and default tests for Debian testing platform

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Since yesterday, I have been installing software packages on my new Debian wheezy (currently testing but soon to be stable) system that are required to give about the most comprehensive tests of PLplot that are possible. The only software packages that I am missing are the agg library (no Debian p

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot (SOLVED)

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-03 23:27+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > This [revision 12238] all still works fine for me with openjdk on Ubuntu. > > It still leaves the issues with running the examples using openjdk > with Debian testing (but not with Ubuntu). Do the examples run fine > with gcj? Yes. test_noninteractiv

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2012-10-03 11:57-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > On 2012-10-03 16:03+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > >> I think with respect to your particular issue [with gcj-4.7: error: > > utf8: No such file or directory] > >> it is probably that t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-03 11:57-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2012-10-03 16:03+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > >> I think with respect to your particular issue [with gcj-4.7: error: > utf8: No such file or directory] >> it is probably that the --encoding option should be set to utf-8 not utf8. >> This works fine

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-03 16:03+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > I think with respect to your particular issue [with gcj-4.7: error: utf8: No such file or directory] > it is probably that the --encoding option should be set to utf-8 not utf8. > This works fine with openjdk. Can > you check with gcj to see if it fix

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-03 12:40+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > Alan, > > Certainly my take on this was that I was envisaging only using this > support for behind the scenes improvements to plmap, not reproducing > a general interface to shapelib / ogr / gdal etc. There is no point > reproducing the wheel, particul

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:23:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Debian wheezy has a huge number of different java choices so I thought > I should briefly document the particular choices I made which > lead to the error below. > > I installed the gcj-4.7-jdk package which seemed to suck in everything

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2

2012-10-03 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Phil, >> I will see if there compiler and linker options that >>help >> with the scenario you are after, but it may turn out to >> be impossible - /MT and /MTd may be the way towards that >> goal. (I just failed to produce a small program that >> depends on these runtime libraries so that is e

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 02:51:34PM -0700, phil rosenberg wrote: > Hi All > I just downloaded shapelib and it builds with no difficulties at all on > Windows. It?seems to be?written in "pure" C so it is just a case of compiling > and linking the files - no build system is necessary as such. In les

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:48:11AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2012-10-02 22:24-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > > > I've used PLplot to plot a lot of data on maps, including mixing data > > from shapefiles and other sources. Based on my experience I think we > > may be going off in the wrong di

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-02 22:24-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > I've used PLplot to plot a lot of data on maps, including mixing data > from shapefiles and other sources. Based on my experience I think we > may be going off in the wrong direction here. Hi Hez: In order to be sure we understand the rest of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2

2012-10-03 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Phil, On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:59:09 +0200 "Arjen Markus" wrote: > I will see if there compiler and linker options that >help > with the scenario you are after, but it may turn out to > be impossible - /MT and /MTd may be the way towards that > goal. (I just failed to produce a small program

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to move to version 2 of the D language?

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
Alan, I was going to remind you about this thread! Another item for the wish list for the next release. I had a quick look, but was more focused on getting the packages released at the time. For the Debian packages we force D version 1 by setting DC = gdc-v1 which works just fine, although we

Re: [Plplot-devel] gnat/Ada packaging issues with modern Debian

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:40:59PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > I have been gradually building up my gcc-4.7 related tool chain for my > new Debian wheezy system, but I have now run into a problem for gnat > (Ada). The issue is the Debian packager for gnat simply decided to > skip pa

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using gcj-4.7-jdk on Debian wheezy fails with PLplot

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:23:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Debian wheezy has a huge number of different java choices so I thought > I should briefly document the particular choices I made which > lead to the error below. > > I installed the gcj-4.7-jdk package which seemed to suck in everything

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2

2012-10-03 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Phil, right, I misunderstood the problem. There are several ways to deal with these runtime libraries: - Put them along with the executables on the target machine. If they are in the same directory this usually works, but the manifest mechanism has made this slightly tricky. - Install