Re: Announce: New graphics package, PLplot_octave

[Ted Harding]

On 06-Apr-98 Joao Cardoso wrote:
>> There is a problem: "make" on plplot bombs out unable to find "./pltclgen"
>> which in fact is in .../bindings/tcl/ (I think "make" is in .../tmp at this
>> point).
> 
> My fault... (asctually plplot developpers). Edit `pltclgen' and provide
> a path to your perl. If you are using Linux, it must be at
> /usr/bin/perl.

*** There is another problem after that one was solved: "make" bombs after a
short while with

cd tmp; make default
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/plplot-octave/plplot/plplot-961023/tmp'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `stupidtk.c', needed by `stupidtk.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/plplot-octave/plplot/plplot-961023/tmp'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I seem to have solved it with

/root/plplot-octave/plplot/plplot-961023 # cp bindings/tk/stupidtk.c tmp

from the plplot-961023 directory that the tar file unpacks into. However, this
is not the correct solution which is to mend the Makefile!

*** Having done that, there is yet another problem!

After "make cdemos", many C functions compile to .o and then

gcc -c -DDOUBLE    -O  x17c.c
x17c.c:33: poll.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [x17c.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/plplot-octave/plplot/plplot-961023/tmp'
make: *** [cdemos] Error 2

I solved this one by editing examples/c/x17c.c to change

#include <poll.h>

to

#include <.usr/include/sys/poll.h>

since that's where my (S.u.S.E-5.1 Linux) system has it ...

*** And, having done that, there's still another problem:

The library libplplotdX.so.4.99 gets into

/usr/local/plplot/lib/libplplotdX.so.4.99

but when you try to run the cdemos you get, for each demo:

./x01c: can't load library 'libplplotdX.so.4.99'

etc. I haven't solved this one yet ... (tried running ldconfig)


Best wishes,
Ted.

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Date: 06-Apr-98                                       Time: 15:17:28
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