On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Hazen Babcock <[email protected]> wrote: > P Kishor wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Still hoping I can make some headway with this. For now, I am stuck >> with unable to install PDL with either ::Graphics::TriD or with >> ::Graphics::PLplot. >> >> As shown below, PLplot itself is installed correctly, or at least that >> is how it seems. Still hoping I can actually install and use this >> software that looks so darn powerful and exciting but seems to require >> magic to set it up. Can I do this without changing my religion? >> >> Any advice or help will be much appreciated. > > I'm not sure if this will solve your PDL/PLplot problems because I did not > see the warning message that I expected in the output from your PDL build, > but it is probably worth a try since it solves what is apparently the same > problem on my OS-X box (PPC, 10.4). > > In the Makefile in PDL/Graphics/PLplot change the line: > LDDLFLAGS = -shared -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib > > To: > LDDLFLAGS = -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib > -L/usr/local/lib > > This also assumes that you have rebuilt PLplot with the "standard" install > path of "/usr/local/" instead of "/usr/local/plplot/". > > -Hazen > >
Hazen, First, many, many thanks in persevering through this with me. I downloaded the latest PLplot source code (5.9.5) and rebuilt it exactly like before. By the way, before doing all this, I deleted the entire /usr/local/plplot folder first. Anyway, this time, plplot got built and installed in /usr/local instead of /usr/local/plplot. You may not believe me, but neither this time nor the previous time did I do any shenanigans. I got what I got. Anyway, after building and installing plplot, I tried the incantation you noted above in the Makefile in PDL/Graphics/PLplot. Well, heck, this time, everything built successfully. I even ran a couple of examples, and PDL worked, the example got created, and so on. So, this hurdle has been passed. Now, the reason I was doing all this was because I wanted to make 3D surface plots (digital elevation models) out of various kinds of data -- for example, income or demography data -- surface models that looks like http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=27 (although that particular surface model is of a physical earth surface). I basically want to feed a 2D array of values (some value at a particular location on the earth... typically like pixel values from a raster) and create a 3D surface. So, the quest continues toward that goal. In the meantime, many thanks for helping troubleshoot this. I hope some day soon all of PDL will build without any problem on Mac OS X. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, WI, United States _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
