Hi Alan, > > What I find disconcerting about Arjen's error report is the lack of > error > message (other than no output) when test-drv-info could not find the > PLplot > library. If I arrange that case on Linux by temporarily renaming > the PLplot > library, test-drv-info generates the following useful error message: > > softw...@raven> ./test-drv-info ps > ./test-drv-info: error while loading shared libraries: libplplotd.so. > 9: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Are we stuck with the bad result that ./test-drv-info silently dies > (no > error message other than no output file) for the corresponding > Cygwin case > or is it possible you could fix that?
I remember that we had this problem already in the past, so this is a known problem (even for us :). I searched the internet thoroughly and eventually found something: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00312.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00320.html According to the mailing list entries, this is a bug in cygwin, which is fixed in the next version (1.7), which is now in beta at the moment. If you run the test-drv-info executable not in cygwin, but in the normal Windows CLI a message pops up, which tells one that the dll is not found. So, we are stuck with this bad result and could do nothing about it (since the program exits before the main routine is entered) and have to wait for the next cygwin version. Regards, Werner > > 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 > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
