I am sending the attached message to the list on behalf of James E. Johnson
(whose message bounced presumably because he isn't subscribed to
plplot-devel).
I am Ccing to him so he will see my response which is as follows:
James, your report shows that "make check" from our old deprecated
autotools-based build system no longer works. The reason for that is nobody
has been willing to maintain it because our new CMake based build system is
a lot more powerful and also much easier for us to maintain. In fact, as
noted in the release announcement for 5.8.0-RC1 (and also the forthcoming
5.8.0), the old autotools-based build system is scheduled for removal right
after 5.8.0 is released. So for this reason we will not be addressing the
"make check" issue you have found. But thanks anyway for going to the extra
trouble of running the "make check" command and reporting the results to us.
If you are still keen there is a big way you can help us out with testing
5.8.0-RC1 using our CMake-based build system. First, follow the directions
for that build system given at
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page .
Please use the -DBUILD_TEST=ON cmake option (in addition to the others
suggested by the wiki), and after running "cmake" with the requested
options, run the commands, "make" and "ctest --verbose". The latter does a
build-tree test of the examples similar to but more extensive than the old
"make check" command. A report of the install-tree test of the examples
(directions for how to do that test are given by the above wiki) would be
extremely useful to us as well.
Alan
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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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
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--- Begin Message ---
Testing front-end c
PLplot library version: 5.8.0-RC1
*** PLPLOT ERROR, ABORTING OPERATION ***
No such file, aborting operation
Testing front-end cxx
PLplot library version: 5.8.0-RC1
No such file - aborting
Testing front-end f77
PLplot library version: 5.8.0-RC1
./test_f77.sh: line 55: ../examples/f77/x28f: No such file or directory
Testing front-end f95
PLplot library version: 5.8.0-RC1
./test_f95.sh: line 56: ../examples/f95/x28f: No such file or directory
Testing front-end java
PLplot library version: 5.8.0-RC1
File lena.pgm not found
File ../lena.pgm not found
File error - aborting
Testing front-end python
./test_python.sh: line 35: @PYTHON_EXECUTABLE@: command not found
Testing front-end tcl
./test_tcl.sh: line 30: pltcl: command not found
FAIL: plplot-test.sh
===================================================
1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
===================================================
--
James
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