I discovered today with a test build (with -fvisibility=hidden) followed by ctest that the plmeta device (remember when we deprecated that?) did not work because of undefined symbols caused by visibility issues. Since ctest doesn't exercise every device I did a comprehensive test for undefined symbols using the following command in the drivers subdirectory of the build tree.
for PLUG in *.so; do echo $PLUG; ldd -r 2>&1 $PLUG | grep -i undefined ; done That command found undefined symbols in a number of devices due to visibility issues. I have now fixed those visibility issues as of revision 9885, and the above command no longer finds any undefined symbols (and ctest now works without errors). Note, I did the above for all (-DDEFAULT_ALL_DEVICES=ON) devices accessible on my Debian Lenny platform. Thus, only wingcc (which by its windows-only nature should have no visibility issues), and pdf (no libharu installed on my system) have not been covered by this test. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
