On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:09:47PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2009-02-13 16:22-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > Testing front-end tcl > > /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/test_tcl.sh: line 34: test.error: > > Permission > > denied > > cat: test.error: No such file or directory > > > > test_tcl.sh insists on changing directories to "$tcldir". I can work > > around > > some of this, but not tcl/x01 sourcing x01.tcl from the current directory. > > > > I've also attached my current patch to plplot-test.sh.cmake for comment. > > This allows me as a user in a writable directory run > > /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/plplot-test.sh. > > I would like to discourage you from the direction you are headed. I think > what you want to do is possible because we solved similar issues in the > build tree, but the changes would be more extensive than just some changes > to plplot-test.sh.cmake so the cost of that solution is a lot of complexity > that I don't want to see in the installed examples case. > > As you have already indicated, a complication when the prefix is "/usr" is > the ordinary user (normally) has no write access. So they cannot do any of > the builds of the examples for compiled languages that are necessary before > they can even execute plplot-test.sh. To solve this issue, I guess the rpm > could compile the examples after they are installed, but then that subverts > one of the principal motivations of the examples which is they teach (by > example) the users how to use PLplot from their language of choice even when > that language is a compiled language. This is an example of the increased > complexity I mentioned above to get a complete solution to the problem using > the direction you are headed. Furthermore, certain of our example languages > (I believe tcl is one of them which would explain your above error) are set > up in such a way that the example must be run from the appropriate > subdirectory of examples. To deal with this issue will require still more > complexity. > > Here is the simple approach I would like you to promote instead of the > direction you are headed. Copy the entire installed examples directory tree > to somewhere under the control of the user, and then execute "make test" in > that copied directory. This is the method I preferentially use, and it is > already documented at > http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot. Thus, > to deal with the overall "writeable directory" issue all you have to do for > Fedora users is copy that documentation or point to it. > > Of course, that still leaves the issue discussed previously of checking the > subdirectory existence when installed examples have been split from each > other into subpackages which may or may not be installed by the user. I > would be happy to commit such a patch that has been tested by you for the > split examples case.
Just to second Alan's comments. This is what Debian does. You don't really want to have to compile all the examples. It defeats the point of examples. Perhaps Fedora is different, but I don't know of other packages that do this. /usr should be able to be used r/o and so the only sensible way of proceeding is for the user to copy the examples before compiling and running. I agree the issue of checking that subdirectories exist needs fixing. It would also be an issue for Debian. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
