On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Doug Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Puneet: Do you mean you could not install the plplot graphics library or > the PDL::Graphics::PLplot interface to plplot? >
I was eventually able to install PLPLOT (is it PLPLOT or PLplot or plplot?). I believe Hazen Babcock helped me somewhere along there. However, I could not get PDL to install with PLPLOT. It errored out with messages about some symbols not found. > --Doug > > [email protected] > Software Engineer > UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, P Kishor wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> with PLPLOT and HDF turned off, and with g77 installed from >>>> http://hpc.sourceforge.net/, and OpenGL via CPAN (I got v. 0.60), PDL >>>> 2.4.5 >>>> installed like a dream. Kudos to all of you who have worked on improving >>>> its >>>> install process. >>> >>> >>> Do you think you could write up a how-to? If you send it to this list, >>> I'll >>> put it on the wiki. >>> >> >> I don't think I did anything special other than kept banging at it. >> Besides, it was all done over such a long period of time that I don't >> even remember all of it. Basically, I started downloading and building >> every conceivable dependency for PDL. The only one that I was not able >> to install easily was PLPLOT. Even when I thought I had installed it >> correctly, PDL kept on choking on it. There might have been a similar >> problem with HDF, I don't recall properly. Eventually, I just set PDL >> to not build against PLPLOT and HDF in perldl.conf, and then did a >> make, sudo make install. >> >> I did get the g77 installer from the hpc site I found on SciKarl's >> website. Everything else was pretty standard. >> >> If you want, I can rewrite the above more nicely, but it won't be any >> much nicer than the above. That's what it really was. >> >> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> David >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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, Wisconsin, United States >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- 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 ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
