I alluded to some difficulty I was having with Ada in the plplot-general message to Don Spong, but further investigation shows it is simply a peculiar manifestation of the embedded blank bug.
All the components of PLplot other than the Ada bindings that have trouble with embedded blanks in directory names work fine if I simply make a symlink (e.g., plplot_svn ==> plplot\ svn ) to avoid direct reference to a name with an embedded blank. However, Ada doesn't even like this symlink approach and gives the same embedded blank error as if I was using plplot\ svn directly. I double-checked that if I removed the plplot_svn symlink and then did mv plplot\ svn plplot_svn Ada works fine. So the current status is svn trunk works fine for my platform (Debian testing) if you have no embedded blanks (or symlinks to embedded blanks) in the source-, build-, or install-tree directories. But there is an immediate Ada issue (enable_language bombs out and soft lands) if you have a symlink to a directory name with an embedded blank and there are issues with additional PLplot components if you use a directory name with direct (unsymlinked) embedded blank. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
