On 2008-04-22 19:56+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > I've just upgraded to the latest release candidate for the new Ubuntu > release "Hardy Heron". The good news is that plplot svn builds fine on > this.
Good. > > Unfortunately the tcl and psttf tests fail. The tcl problem is > the problem which Alan found in Debian testing some time ago where > itcl.tcl can't be found. Unfortunately the fix didn't make it across to > Ubuntu. Andrew knows this already, but just to add to what he said for the benefit of others here, you can work around that problem by setting, e.g., export ITCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/itcl3.2 > The psttf problem is the old > issue with lasi and missing glyphs. Again the latest lasi release hasn't > made it into Ubuntu in time. Again for the benefit of others here, liblasi-1.0.6 was not robust against missing glyphs or glyphs (such as bitmapped) that could not be used by liblasi. The latest liblasi-1.1.0 is much more robust against such glyph problems (it simply renders nothing and moves on rather than erroring out). So far we have not found any glyph problem that causes an error for 1.1.0. Until 1.10 becomes available for a particular distribution, the only way to avoid erroring out for prior versions is to install high-quality TrueType fonts that provide the missing or bitmapped glyph that is causing the trouble. Thanks to Rafael and Andrew's recent packaging efforts, the 1.1.0 libLASi release is now available in Debian unstable and should propagate to Debian testing in 9 days and to Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives some time after depending on their various release schedules. 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
