Alan W. Irwin writes: > Since your question is of general interest to developers, I am posting my > reply to the list. > > > I'm working on Tcl #19. I'm close to getting it straightened out, hope to > > commit soon. > > > > Question: In my own comparisons between the C and Tcl examples, > > generated by manual invocation of the various examples, I'm seeing that > > the psc output has a timestamp in it. Does your script have a way of > > filtering that out? Can you tell me how to observe how that part of > > this comparison works? > > To see exactly what scripts are being run, use VERBOSE=1, e.g., > > make VERBOSE=1 test_diff_psc >& make.out > > Once you have identified that the script is plplot_test/test_diff.sh(.in), > then the answer quickly follows that "tail" is used to get rid of the date > stamp before diff is used. > > Andrew, I believe it was your decision to use tail and diff. Did you > consider the possibility of using cmp with the -i option instead? I do > notice that the combination of tail and diff takes a noticeable length of > time because of the huge number of files involved, but for platforms like > Linux I suspect cmp would be considerably faster.
Uhh... I certainly have no recollection of that. My suggestions would be, in order of preference: 1) eliminate the timestamp in the ps(c) output 2) Use grep -v to elide the one line, then diff the rest. I am using Tcl 8.5 at the moment, and did not recall the earlier portion of the thread you quoted. I am still a long way from being caught up, in any meaningful sense of the word. But at least I managed to get something done this release cycle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
