Brian would like to thank you for your help. He has it working the way he thinks it should.
Amy > On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 20:01, Brian Miller wrote: > >> On Mar 31, 2021, at 8:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 19:18, James Secan wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 10:53, Brian Miller wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> When running your program sudo port install plplot +fortran, I do not >>>>>> get any results. Can you recommend something other than +fortran that I >>>>>> might try? >>>>> >>>>> According to: >>>>> >>>>> port variants plplot >>>>> >>>>> the plplot port does not have a variant called "fortran". But it looks >>>>> like if you use one of the variants whose names begin with "gcc" then >>>>> fortran support will be enabled. >>>> >>>> Isn’t the +g95 variant what he needs? >>> >>> Looks like the g95 variant would also accomplish that goal, yes, if the >>> user prefers that. Our g95 port is for version 0.93, the latest version >>> mentioned on the web site. The web site claims this was released in October >>> 2012 but the web server's modification date for the source tarball is >>> August 2010, so that's rather old at this point and the user may prefer to >>> use a newer compiler suite like a current version of gcc which contains >>> gfortran. >> >> I have tried using the +g95 variant and still get no results. I am using >> fortran-mp-10 to compile. >> >> As a side note, this is Brian’s wife Amy. I am trying to “translate” for my >> husband who used to be quite handy with all of this, but suffered a stroke >> 7.5 years ago and as a result has some gaps. I don’t know the first thing >> about any of this so that doesn’t help. We do appreciate the help you are >> offering and your patience with us. > > Hi Amy. We'll try to help! We can certainly help you understand how to use > MacPorts to install plplot. As for how to use plplot once it's installed, > there are fewer of us who know that, but there may be some. The maintainer of > the port is one likely candidate to ask if you don't find the answers you > need here; you can find his contact information by running "port info plplot". > > We'll probably need more information from you than that you get "no result". > It may help if you copy what's in your Terminal into your email reply so that > we can see exactly what you typed and what happened in response. > > You should get *some* result. For example, if you don't already have plplot > installed, running "sudo port install plplot" should give you a result > something like this: > > > ---> Computing dependencies for plplot > ---> Fetching archive for plplot > ---> Attempting to fetch > plplot-5.15.0_5+aquaterm+gcc10+x11.darwin_17.x86_64.tbz2 from > https://packages.macports.org/plplot > ---> Attempting to fetch > plplot-5.15.0_5+aquaterm+gcc10+x11.darwin_17.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from > https://packages.macports.org/plplot > ---> Installing plplot @5.15.0_5+aquaterm+gcc10+x11 > ---> Activating plplot @5.15.0_5+aquaterm+gcc10+x11 > ---> Cleaning plplot > > > Or if you did already have plplot installed, then you should get a result > like this: > > > ---> Computing dependencies for plplot > ---> Cleaning plplot > > > Note that the +g95 variant means that it will compile the fortran parts with > the g95 compiler, while the +gcc10 variant means that it will compile the > fortran parts with the gfortran-mp-10 compiler, and equivalently for the > other gcc* variants. If you care which fortran compiler is used to compile > the fortran parts of plplot, make sure you select the corresponding variant. > > Once plplot is installed, "port contents plplot" will show you what was > installed. This is quite a lot of files, most of which are probably not > interesting, so you might limit the output to just programs, for example by > running "port contents plplot | grep /bin" which should give you output like > this: > > > /opt/local/bin/pltcl > /opt/local/bin/pltek > > > If you want to find out how to use those programs, the manuals can be > displayed by running "man pltcl" and "man pltek". If you were expecting to > find different programs, let us know what you were expecting to find. > >
