cmake-2.4.5 was released this morning and removes a bug that I had to workaround in a fairly ugly way for 2.4.4. I have tested the new cmake without the workaround, and everything seems fine. Accordingly, I have removed the workaround and designated 2.4.5 as the minimum version of cmake if you are using the CVS version of PLplot. This seems a well-tested version of cmake which appeared rapidly after 2.4.4 (in part because of the above bug) so I expect it will be at least several months before we see a newer version of cmake.
Let me know if you have any problems with the PLplot build with the new version of cmake. The only important outstanding PLplot/CMake issues I am aware of are the following: * The wxwidgets device driver fails to compile on systems that use the 4.x version of gcc (and g++). On that system (Ubuntu dapper) I have temporarily worked around the problem by specifying -DPLD_wxwidgets=OFF but ultimately the solution is a wxwidgets.cpp change that is more explicit about what overloaded form of wxString is desired. * There is something wrong with the error reporting for ctest. For example, there is still a minor issue with lena.pgm and java, but you would never know it from the non-verbose ctest report. Here is the verbose output: Testing front-end java PLplot library version: 5.7.1 File lena.pgm not found -- Process completed Passed Even for the --verbose case, you might not even notice that remark about lena.pgm and instead focus on the "Passed" result which indicates all is well when it isn't. * We need a libltdl build solution for windows so that we can try that library on that platform for the dynamic (plug-in) form of our devices. I have tracked down how KDE handled the libltdl build and use for both Unix and windows, but I haven't implemented our own version yet due to lack of time. If one of our windows developers is interested in taking this over, I can give you details of the KDE lead I was following. Otherwise, I think this will be after our next release. * cmake parsing of fixed-form fortran file comments is not skipped so that those comment lines are searched by the cmake parser for commands such as "use" that affect modules. This is cmake bug 3109. We have worked around this bug (in an extremely ugly way) by replacing "use " by "use_" for the comment lines in all our fortran 77 interface code and examples. * The fortran 95 module dependency process is screwed up for cmake even for free-form fortran files where bug 3109 is not relevant. This is cmake bug 3984 where I give a simple example of the problem. We have worked around this cmake fortran module dependency bug by creating a file (with arbitrary contents) called plplot.mod.proxy in the top-level build directory at cmake time (see examples/f95/CMakeLists.txt.) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
