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
>
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>
> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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