On 2010-10-14 19:02-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Because PLplot now has an incremented SOVERSION, I had to rebuild > PDL::Graphics::PLplot (the latest version = 0.52). I have attached my > cookbook for doing that in case anybody else wants to do complete > testing of PDL::Graphics::PLplot against modern PLplot. > > The result is a PDL module which is linked against the svn trunk of > PLplot (SOVERSION 10), and which also suppresses the use of rpath. > That suppression is fairly essential since use of rpath means > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored, and that environment variable helps us > switch between the build-tree version of PLplot and the install-tree > version of PLplot (see plplot_test/test_pdl.sh(.in).
Oops! I failed to check Perl/PDL with a clean build. Once I did that, it turns out we have a classic "chicken/egg" issue if you have built your own PDL::Graphics::PLplot module following the previous cookbook. That cookbook means PDL::Graphics::PLplot will depend on soversion 10 of libplplotd. If you do a clean build with the install tree removed; then libplplotd (soversion 10) will not (yet) be accessible at cmake time, our CMake tests for the existence of PDL::Graphics::PLplot fails, and Perl/PDL testing is disabled. This is obviously not the desired outcome! To get around this difficulty, I have just (revision 11261) implemented option(SKIP_PDL_CHECK "SKIP all PDL checks because libplplotd not yet available at cmake time" OFF) Of course, you should only use this option if you know what you are doing; e.g., you already _know_ that you have PDL-Graphics-PLplot installed with the PDL-Graphics-PLplot version >= 0.47 (see previous cookbook for how to do that). I have just done a clean build and test with -DSKIP_PDL_CHECK=ON, and all seems well with PDL::Graphics::PLplot except for the TLC issues I mentioned in my previous post. Although I haven't tested it (because I am not interested in the behaviour of old versions of PDL::Graphics::PLplot and it is laborious to switch from the new to old version), I believe the default SKIP_PDL_CHECK=OFF behaviour should "just work" for those who are satisfied with the unmodified system version of PDL which normally contains an old version of PDL-Graphics-PLplot which only allows a very limited selection of the PDL examples to be run. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
