Re: [Plplot-devel] ctest failure with Qt file devices

2016-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-11-17 16:25-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 11/17/2016 04:49 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> So you will want to try that version as well. > > I'm still seeing the same problem. > >> However, if the example 2 memory management issues continue to show up

[Plplot-devel] Moved to automoc method

2016-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
there are no such issues for -DPLPLOT_USE_QT5=OFF so I am going to leave that option OFF by default. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with

Re: [Plplot-devel] ctest failure with Qt file devices

2016-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-11-16 12:20-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Hazen: I cannot verify the issue you are currently investigating for example 2 and Qt4 here. Instead, what I get here is software@raven> valgrind examples/c/x02c -dev pngqt -fam -o test.pngqt ==24632== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==24

Re: [Plplot-devel] ctest failure with Qt file devices

2016-11-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e code after the breakpoint is reached with "next" and printing out all relevant variables until you reach the condition that causes that segfault. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of V

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets device driver speed/idle time

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
u just want to send your overview by e-mail). That IPC overview would be a big help in getting up to speed for anyone else wanting to figure out what is going on with these weird idle times that we are encountering on the Linux platform. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astro

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets device driver speed/idle time

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
-dev wxwidgets and wxPLviewer. However, my current knowledge of Linux kernel IPC is small, and I have many other PLplot issues on my plate at the moment so I will have to delay this for quite a while. Thus, there is an opportunity for someone else to contribute substantially here if they have some knowledge

Re: [Plplot-devel] ctest failure with Qt file devices

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s is it is something one or all of our qt devices does wrong for the end-of-page processing in familying mode for the unique way example 2 navigates through its two pages. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

Re: [Plplot-devel] libplplottcltk now has a pure redacted API

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
od test of all standard Tcl examples on bare windows. Does -dev ntk produce good results on this platform as well? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming af

Re: [Plplot-devel] libplplottcltk now has a pure redacted API

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e doing that for all our standard examples and all our interactive devices! :-) 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finding wxWidgets

2016-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
we can do about these is wait for the bugs in Qt5 memory management to be fixed. So those two tests are shortly going to be excluded from the test_interactive target (with a CMake WARNING similar to the above message to remind us to test the individual targets from time to time to see if the

Re: [Plplot-devel] ctest failure with Qt file devices

2016-11-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
y have screwed up linking which could also introduce memory management issues. Anyhow, when I make the final commit on this topic, I plan to check all qt-related results with "ldd -r" to make sure there are no linking issues left. Furthermore, I plan to run some systematic valgrind tests for

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets device driver speed/idle time

2016-11-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a bad way for the Linux case, that randomly causes excessive idle times, and that is an issue that the PLplot development team needs to urgently address if we ever want the wxwidgets device to be popular on Linux. I am looking forward to your reply with similar time experiments on your own Linux plat

[Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets device driver speed/idle time

2016-11-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ere) has access to a Linux box, some confirmation (or not) of my (extremely) slow speed results for wxwidgets device driver and wxPLViewer application would be much appreciated. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finding wxWidgets

2016-11-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ATH=%WXWIN%\lib\vc_lib with -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR:PATH=M:/wx/wxwidgets-3.1.0 -DwxWidgets_LIB_DIR:PATH=M:/wx/wxwidgets-3.1.0/lib/vc_lib in your cmake options? Also, if that still does not do the trick, please send the CMakeCache.txt file as well. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomic

[Plplot-devel] Reducing loudness of compiler "Error" messages

2016-11-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
;Error" messages are too loud for simply an issue with a missing compiler so ideally it would be good to reduce that loudness. I will think about methods of doing that, but it may be a bit tricky so no promises. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation wit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finding wxWidgets

2016-11-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
talled wxwidgets). For example, is WXWIN defined properly to the location where you have installed wxWidgets? (I have asked this key question before, but so far you have not responded.) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and A

[Plplot-devel] libplplottcltk now has a pure redacted API

2016-11-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
he new redacted API). 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

[Plplot-devel] More tclmatrix library progress

2016-11-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-11-05 00:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > N.B. I have not yet made any changes in the matrix initialization > code nor the matrix assignment code. [] I have completed that work as of commit ad34b3a. Please see the commit message for examples of the large degree of flexi

[Plplot-devel] Just finished implementing a powerful index slice capability for the tclmatrix library

2016-11-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nd once we have that capability, that should allow you to drop all the non-redacted forms from our Tcl and Tk bindings and examples which is a substantial Tcl/Tk improvement for PLplot that I have been looking forward to for a long time. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finding wxWidgets

2016-10-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. 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); the Time

[Plplot-devel] Finding wxWidgets

2016-10-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
wxWidgets_LIB_DIR:PATH=%WXWIN%\lib\vc_lib Once you have WXWIN set correctly (or whatever is needed to change your wxWidgets cmake command-line options so that wxWidgets_CONFIGURATION is used), then my prediction is the rest of the wxWidgets find process will work as well. But please let me

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
equivalent to a release candidate. I doubt I will make an official release candidate at that stage, but I will certainly publish an appeal for intense user testing then (typically in the last week before the actual release). But your on-going testing of git master branch now is extremely useful a

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
properly configure our pkg-config files with this new CMake Qt5 support method. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
take a while to be completed because I am having trouble with the implementation. I have started a thread on the CMake mailing list concerning the issues I have encountered, and we will see how it goes. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
And if it doesn't fix it, please bump the minimum version "5.3.1" that appears on line 80 of cmake/modules/qt.cmake to a minimum version that is consistent with your Qt5 version to see if that locally fixes the issue.) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research a

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-10-15 10:26-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Next Qt5 steps are for me to bump the minimum Qt5 version we support > to 5.3.2 (which _might_ solve Pedros problem with the Qt5 version he > is using), try out pyqt5, and completely change the method used to > configure Qt5 to the

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-10-12 15:06-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > @Hazen and other Qt5 users here. Once I move to the latest Qt5 cmake > support methods, we will be on much less shaky ground with Qt5, but I > will still consider our Qt5 support to be experimental because there > are still text alig

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
atibilities (e.g., when they moved from Qt4 to Qt5 development). So from that argument I would have thought 5.2.0 would cover _any_ Qt5 version of 5.2.0 or higher. So bumping that version argument to 5.5.1 as in my guess above might make a difference, but I cannot see why. So it is unfortunately a

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
possibility to look at if Qt5 users find that text alignment is suddenly poor when they upgrade their Qt5 version. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming af

Re: [Plplot-devel] build with wxWidgets, Visual Studio

2016-10-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ted simple test. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake error Qt build

2016-10-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
quot;plplot". All uses of target_link_libraries with a target must > be either all-keyword or all-plain. [...] Hi Pedro: I am pretty sure we have solved this issue already, but could you please check by trying the same test with the git master branch version? Thanks. Alan _____

Re: [Plplot-devel] New wxwidgets device does not honor -bg - -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON PL_HAVE_SNPRINTF

2016-10-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(which depends on "all" so all the "all"-related targets get built) and which also installs PLplot in the prefix location you have specified). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University o

Re: [Plplot-devel] New wxwidgets device does not honor -bg - -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON PL_HAVE_SNPRINTF

2016-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
#x27;t understand why you end up building that independent target using visual studio. Is there some capability for that IDE where you can build every target whether they are independent of other targets or not? If so, you should not do that since many of the independent targets such as generate_announce

[Plplot-devel] New wxwidgets device does not honor -bg

2016-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-10-06 00:13-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > @Phil, will you look into this please? > > To verify this bug myself, I did the following steps which you should > be able to replicate for yourself. > > * Run cmake with the -DBUILD_TEST=ON option which configures > the

[Plplot-devel] Fixed trailing space issues on most files

2016-10-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
comprehensive testing and thus might find some issue that this commit introduces. Therefore, please keep an eye open for any strange results in your daily use of PLplot that is caused by this commit. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2016-09-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
work on this before the release, but this example is what I will start with post-release. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEO

Re: [Plplot-devel] build with wxWidgets, Visual Studio

2016-09-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
st changed the PLplot master branch so that our unofficial version follows the official version (see my recent commit 511a6ac). @Pedro, Laurent, and other wxwidgets users: Please test the latest PLplot git master branch to make sure that unofficial FindwxWidgets.cmake find module satisfies your

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2016-09-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-09-13 10:44+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > On 13 September 2016 at 03:27, Alan W. Irwin > wrote: >> There is a substantial testing requirement for fill changes. The >> reason for that is we have had years of mostly good user experience >> with the present fill a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2016-09-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
introduce more issues than they fix? Assuming you like this idea, please implement it if you are in a hurry or else wait for me to implement it post-release. Then once our fill regression testing scheme is in place, you should test any proposed fill change with that scheme before you merge that

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2016-09-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ctly why wxwidgets shows the issue and our other devices currently do not and ideally you will be able to follow up even further by adjusting the example slightly so all our devices show the issue. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Phy

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran build error on Ubuntu

2016-09-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ou are using an older version of gfortran that does not completely support the Fortran 2003 standards that we depend on for our new Fortran binding and examples? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univers

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2016-09-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
like to address for this release, but because of the break I mentioned above, I made little progress on those this summer so that release deadline is still indefinite and at least a month or two away. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departmen

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platformu

2016-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-08-25 15:32-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > >> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> @Jim: You stated recently that you had some trouble with getting the >> Fortran parts of PLplot to work on Mac OS X. If that is still the >> case, the r

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platformu

2016-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-08-23 22:55-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [] > It appears [...] that the INSTALL_NAME_DIR method does > work for Mac OS X, but I would prefer to use the rpath approach to > keep as parallel as possible with what goes on in the Linux case. I > think the attached patch (whi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platformu

2016-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-08-23 21:29-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Aug 22, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Jim: You said: I ran the comprehensive test suite [presumably for test_fortran] and got the following error ERROR: cmake in the build tree failed I reran the test and specified the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platform

2016-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
PPS. According to <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12521802/print-rpath-of-executable-on-osx> you can also obtain the rpath for any executable or library using otool. So it looks like you don't need gobjdump for this purpose. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin A

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platform

2016-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
P.S. According to discussion in <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3286675/readelf-like-tool-for-mac-os-x> there is a gobjdump executable that is available from homebrew and macports which does the same thing as the Linux objdump. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astron

Re: [Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platform

2016-08-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
est_fortran project on Mac OS X platforms, then I intend to modify the plplot project to use that working rpath method for Mac OS X platforms. So further investigation by you or someone else along the lines I have suggested above is important. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronom

[Plplot-devel] Potential Mac OS X rpath change needs testing on that platform

2016-08-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
cause I am anxious to get this whole rpath issue settled for Mac OS X. Therefore, your timely response would be much appreciated. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic

Re: [Plplot-devel] ocaml cairo

2016-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-07-21 14:25-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > Re: > > commit 893625ca34ed22f4d8941f9902aa71bf30eaf8fb > Author: Alan W. Irwin > Date: Sat Oct 24 13:30:10 2015 -0700 > >Build system: Disable OCAML_HAS_CAIRO > >I have taken this step because subs

Re: [Plplot-devel] octave 4

2016-07-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e as Arjen, and know of a patch to fix it, that would be great as well. 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 equati

[Plplot-devel] PLplot now appears to be ready for CMake 3.6.0

2016-07-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n for future comprehensive tests during this release cycle to help establish no regressions will have been introduced by any further changes leading up to the release of PLplot-5.12.0. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics a

[Plplot-devel] Status of the planned release of 5.12.0

2016-06-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ot all our remaining Fortran binding bugs so that we will be able to stick fairly closely to those two ETA's. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] NAG whitespace issues

2016-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with normal CMake list processing rather than special code to deal with the space separation. However, I believe that massive cleanup to our build system will be worth it since I am pretty sure many of our problems with spaces in path names will disappear as a result. Alan __ Al

Re: [Plplot-devel] NAG whitespace issues

2016-05-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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); the Time Ephemerides p

[Plplot-devel] NAG whitespace issues

2016-05-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
otes as well. 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 (freeeo

[Plplot-devel] Freeze date for substantial changes to master still not settled for current release cycle

2016-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
branches to the point where they can be pushed to the SF repository master branch and can be made part of the forthcoming release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

Re: [Plplot-devel] Working with the NAG compiler

2016-05-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-05-13 12:58-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > To summarize, your suggestion to move back to an ABBS has fallen on > somewhat stony soil. :-) The reason for that is we had a chance to do > a head-to-head comparison between a new CBBS that had been developed > for a month or so

Re: [Plplot-devel] Working with the NAG compiler

2016-05-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
second chance especially now that you know about that VERBOSE=1 option. :-) 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 e

Re: [Plplot-devel] Avoiding untyped variables in our Fortran binding and examples

2016-05-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to check for variables that are not explicitly declared for either the ifort or NAG Fortran compilers. As far as I can tell, gfortran does not have such an option. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Avoiding untyped variables in our Fortran binding and examples

2016-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
For example, some use the term "undefined variable" when they really mean that a properly typed variable is uninitialized. And, of course, an uninitialized variable is much more difficult to detect than an undefined type. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

[Plplot-devel] Avoiding untyped variables in our Fortran binding and examples

2016-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ger includes -Wimplicit, and I also just confirmed that gfortran no longer accepts that option. Do any of the Fortran compilers accessible to you have an option to check for any untyped variables = implicit declarations left in our code? If so, please use that option to check our code. Alan ___

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-05-09 18:50- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Wadud, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> >> Hi Wadud: >> >> Thanks very much for your build test of PLplot using the NAG Fortran >&g

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng something like this: "to get that Fortran standards compliant code to compile with the NAG compiler, you need xxx flag". Good luck with your further investigation of the above build error, and let us know how it goes. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Ast

Re: [Plplot-devel] qhull 2015

2016-04-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ill try to get the Qhull 2015.2-related fix(es) into that release as well. 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 equat

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
done that already) and the qhull-related package installed, before posting your MinGW-w64/MSYS2 Fortran-constrained comprehensive test reports to our Wiki. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
adud.m...@nag.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:17 PM > To: Arjen Markus; Alan W. Irwin > Cc: plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings > > Hi Arjen/Alan, > [...] > I've found PLplot the best visualisation libraries f

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-04-28 06:35- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, Wadud, > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:22 PM >> To: Wadud Miah >> Cc: Arjen Markus; plplot-devel@lists.sou

Re: [Plplot-devel] C example 8 changes, and which parts of our API should be propagated to other languages?

2016-04-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-04-27 18:03-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...] gained useful generalized capability for processing 2D arrays in any > format that is accessible to C (regardless of whether that format is > efficent or not). Note that each of our supported languages typically > has a preferr

[Plplot-devel] C example 8 changes, and which parts of our API should be propagated to other languages?

2016-04-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ich served as the motivation for the current commit which (unless the user specifies the C-only -if_plfsurf3d option) replaces all those calls by the equivalent plsurf3d calls to help give better guidance as to what part of the C API should be propagated to our non-C languages. Alan ____

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-04-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tting the CC and FC environment variables and running the above script with exactly those arguments. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with

[Plplot-devel] Substantial changes to pl_create_tempfile and pl_create_tempfifo

2016-04-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
_____ 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); the Time Ephemer

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Fortran bindings

2016-04-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for now I don't think we should use it since according to <http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/iso_fortran_env> INT32 was only introduced in the Fortran 2008 standard, and we would like to stick to Fortran 2003 in our new Fortran binding as much as possible to enhance our chances that the

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results Fortran on MinGW-w64

2016-03-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and continuing to follow those instructions especially with regard to running the update-core script) for dealing with that issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.u

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results Fortran on MinGW-w64

2016-03-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
oncerning the update-core script? That URL does seem to imply that if you do not use that script, that subsequent installation of packages using "pacman -S" is going to fail. Anyhow, if there is any question that you have not been using update-core, I think you probably need to reinstal

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results Fortran on MinGW-w64

2016-03-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e you whether both ctest and make (I would advise you to mention the exact package names including version numbers that you are using for both in your MSYS2 mailing list post) use a common facility that has a known bug on MinGW-w64/MSYS2? More later concerning your actual working "unparall

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results Fortran on MinGW-w64

2016-03-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rm with these 3 issues addressed. 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 (freeeo

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ld follow that up by a minimally constrained comprehensive test of PLplot to make sure everything is OK both with all components of PLplot and your MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform. And similarly with Cygwin. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rt. Of course, if -y works, I hope you are willing to send me the resulting updated package list. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. So I will hold that post in anticipation that Greg can answer the question below. @Greg: is there some extra step Arjen needs to do so that his installer gives him access to the latest packages? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physic

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin --octave-4

2016-03-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-17 08:57- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> >> Ib. disabling octave >> >> There has been no recent PLplot work on the octave binding so yo

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-17 14:30- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:03 PM >> To: Arjen Markus >> Cc: PLplot development list >&g

[Plplot-devel] MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform issues

2016-03-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
uted with MSYS2. Right, will update > my installation and try again. I am glad you are going to do that, and I hope you also will be able to follow that website cookbook to generate a complete up-to-date list of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 packages that you can share with me. Alan ___

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin - Ada build errors

2016-03-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
errors: [...] Please send the report tarball to the list for this case. 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 implemen

Re: [Plplot-devel] build on Windows using MSVC...

2016-03-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you should tell us what version of PLplot you are attempting to use. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] git blog

2016-03-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-16 09:12- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:08 AM >> To: Arjen Markus >> Cc: PLplot development list >>

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran callback progress

2016-03-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-16 08:18- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> >> Meanwhile, could you please run instead the simple test I requested, i.e., >> >> scripts/c

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
y want to agitate on the Cygwin list concerning the missing gdc, libharu (or libhpdf) and especially gcc-java and camlidl packages. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca)

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin [POSSIBLE SOLUTION?]

2016-03-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
enerate some variant of No matrix operator named... that message is completely suppressed in script mode as occurred recently before my fix to stop using GetEntries for the last argument (which is scalar) in plmaptexCmd. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliat

[Plplot-devel] git blog

2016-03-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
fast forwards to both origin/master and the master branch at SF) and propagate that linear history. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliation

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin [POSSIBLE SOLUTION?]

2016-03-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-14 17:34-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...] > *** PLPLOT WARNING *** > plmaptex is a no-op because shapelib is not available. > No matrix operator named "62" > > So from that last line I am pretty sure that the "62" in > > $w cmd plma

Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin [POSSIBLE SOLUTION?]

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-14 14:58-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I am going to follow up by trying some valgrind runs on Linux for > example 19 without shapelib and for both Tcl and C to see if valgrind > can spot the fundamental memory management issue that is causing the > segfault for your partic

[Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
valgrind runs on Linux for example 19 without shapelib and for both Tcl and C to see if valgrind can spot the fundamental memory management issue that is causing the segfault for your particular (Cygwin) combination of circumstances. More later. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Ast

[Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing of MSVC/ifort/nmake

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t to check that putting MinGW-w64/MSYS2 bash.exe and sh.exe last on your PATH is not somehow interfering with CMake's tests of ifort. If that possible interference turns out to be an issue for the "by hand" case, then you try putting Cygwin's bash.exe and sh.exe last on your PATH i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran callback progress

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
k is also useful to you. 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 (fr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran callback progress

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-14 08:51- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:23 AM >> To: Arjen Markus >> Cc: PLplot development list >> Subje

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your recent commit 8c4fb79 = "Add allocate statements to prevent problems if allocate-on-assign not supported by default"

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-14 01:13-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > As you know, after I have finally finished the current documentation update [] P.S. As you have probably noticed from the git feed I have been making some progress with that documentation upgrade. For example, all C callback types are

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran callback progress

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
those platforms, but I need to see the report tarball in each case as well. 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-

[Plplot-devel] Your recent commit 8c4fb79 = "Add allocate statements to prevent problems if allocate-on-assign not supported by default"

2016-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e three trees in your comprehensive tests. 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 ste

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recently introduced Tcl regressions for examples 15 and 18

2016-03-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-08 10:52-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > However, for master tip there are still two remaining issues from your > commit which are the following PostScript difference regressions from > the perfect Tcl PostScript differences I obtained in January: > > tcl >

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