Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-15 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 9:44 PM > > To keep this organized, here is a summary of what you have discovered so far: > > (1) You have an infinite loop for any version of a "spaced" install prefix >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-12 07:30- Arjen Markus wrote: > [For cmake] I tried the \ variant for incorporating spaces in an option - > same result, CMake hangs. However, I have found what it is doing: it writes a > file export_plplot.cmake.tmp which contains: > > ... > > # Compute the installation prefix re

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-12 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, See my remarks in context. Regards, Arjen > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 10:10 PM > To: Arjen Markus > Cc: PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in fu

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-09 11:31- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 7:18 PM >> >> Assuming the form I suggested on Cygwin >> >> cmake "-CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=d:/plplot-src/install w

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 7:18 PM > > Assuming the form I suggested on Cygwin > > cmake "-CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=d:/plplot-src/install with spaces" > > does work there, please check that same fo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-09 09:42- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> -Original Message- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 9:50 AM >> >> Hi Arjen: >> >> The diff executable from the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 Unix tools should "just work" if >> run from a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 9:50 AM > > Hi Arjen: > > The diff executable from the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 Unix tools should "just work" if > run from a bash script (as in comprehensive testing, ctest, > etc.)

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-09 07:00- Arjen Markus wrote: > Well, there is indeed a conundrum [for MSVC] - the diff executable. I have a > solution in mind (using a temporary environment variable) to transfer the > context from the shell script to CMake (this involves effectively going from > one operating

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Arjen Markus
lot development list > Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues > > On 2017-05-08 08:03- Arjen Markus wrote: > > > Hi Alan, Chris, > > > > > > > > I tried the same thing with MinGW-w64/MSYS2. This succeeded in so far, that: &g

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-08 13:40- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, Chris, > > > > Just repeated the build experiment for "bare" Windows: > > -CMake, make and make install all work with a destination directory > whose name contains spaces > > -However, nmake on the installed examples produces

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-08 08:03- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, Chris, > > > > I tried the same thing with MinGW-w64/MSYS2. This succeeded in so far, that: > > -CMake produced a full report and makefiles Assuming the form I suggested on Cygwin cmake "-CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=d:/plplot-src/ins

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-08 07:18- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, Chris, > [...] > My first step was to build in a directory whose name contains spaces, but > nothing else. This worked smoothly for both Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Hi Arjen: Good to hear you had that initial promising result on both platf

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, Chris, Just repeated the build experiment for "bare" Windows: -CMake, make and make install all work with a destination directory whose name contains spaces -However, nmake on the installed examples produces an error message: Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utili

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, Chris, I tried the same thing with MinGW-w64/MSYS2. This succeeded in so far, that: -CMake produced a full report and makefiles -make succeeded -make install succeeded as well -making the examples worked, except for Java - the path to the Java compil

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Arjen Markus
arkus; Chris Marshall; PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues > > To Arjen and Chris: > > @Arjen: > > I saw your remark that you were going to write off the Cygwin platform for > case (4) > testing, but please hold off on that decisio

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Arjen and Chris: @Arjen: I saw your remark that you were going to write off the Cygwin platform for case (4) testing, but please hold off on that decision until Chris clarifies what he said below: On 2017-05-05 08:24-0400 Chris Marshall wrote: > cygwin doesn't handle install directories with

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-05 Thread Chris Marshall
ure on Cygwin > then. > > > > Regards, > > > > Arjen > > > > > > *From:* Chris Marshall [mailto:devel.chm...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, May 05, 2017 2:25 PM > *To:* Arjen Markus > *Cc:* PLplot development list > *Subject:* Re: [Plplot-devel] Space i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-05 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Chris, Thanks for the warning - I will not try to test this feature on Cygwin then. Regards, Arjen From: Chris Marshall [mailto:devel.chm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 2:25 PM To: Arjen Markus Cc: PLplot development list Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-05 Thread Chris Marshall
cygwin doesn't handle install directories with whitespace fully or at all. At any rate, you would not be able to determine if a failure was from a bad fix at the plplot level or the underlying cygwin and the white space. Cheers, Chris On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi A

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-04 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 5:09 AM > However, I have figured out two good alternatives for completely testing case > (4) > which are for some tester with access to Windows to install either/both t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-03 20:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2017-05-03 00:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> []It turns out there >> are 4 kinds of these type of issues where the spaces(s) occur in the >> full pathname of (1) the source tree, (2), the build tree, (3), the >> install tree, and (4) the sy

[Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-03 00:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > []It turns out there > are 4 kinds of these type of issues where the spaces(s) occur in the > full pathname of (1) the source tree, (2), the build tree, (3), the > install tree, and (4) the system libraries and executables that PLplot > uses. >