Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> Yes, please! Also, please state the revision number ("svn update"
> gives you
> that automatically). Note, I request this complete form of bug report
> every
> time there is some issue for an excellent reason; the PLplot build is
> highly
> interdependent so that some innocuous clue for some entirely different
> part
> of the cmake.out or make.out files may be the one that finally helps to
> solve the issue.
Right, I will run CMake on the latest version and provide the verbose
output (I did not realise this flag existed). That will be for tomorrow
though.
>
> Also, the cmake command-line option -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON (for a
> fresh
> build in an empty build tree) should be used for every complete bug
> report.
> This option fills make.out with essential information that is missing
> if you
> don't use that option.. Because you didn't have this option above, it
> may
> have given you the incorrect impression that make.out would not be that
> useful in a complete bug report.
>
> This issue of making a complete and useful bug report comes up so
> often on
> this list and plplot-general, I probably should put it in the wiki for
> our
> users who are going to report bugs. But I hope making such complete bug
> reports becomes instinctive for the developers on this list for the
> reasons
> I expressed above. The compressed form of attachment for cmake.out and
> make.out chews up relatively little bandwidth so there is no real reason
> to drop this essential information.
>
> Arjen, for this specific bug, you can reduce the build times a lot
> more and
> reduce dependencies (while still showing the bug) by using the
> cmake command-line options
>
> -DDEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS=ON -DDEFAULT_NO_DEVICES=ON -DPLD_ps=ON
>
> I look forward to your complete report on this bug (assuming it still
> exists for the latest version of PLplot) using those options.
If not, that would be so much the better :).
(I will put the verbose option in my standard script for running cmake -
no better
instinct than files on disk :))
Regards,
Arjen
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