Hi Alan,
my guess here is that PLplot itself is limiting the file name. I have
not had a chance yet to check this theory, but when I used the relative
very much shorter path, it all worked fine. (The output from the script
shows the entire path, so that is not truncated)
Regards,
Arjen
On 2010-12-07 17:40, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-12-07 13:13+0100 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> I changed the value of the "results" variable in test_tcl.sh.in
>> to "${OUTPUT_DIR}" and it worked fine. Except that the Tcl results
>> do not show up in the summary. Odd.
>
> One other curiosity. If you look higher in test_tcl.sh(.in) you find the
> following shell commands:
>
> cd "${OUTPUT_DIR}"
> results="`pwd`"
> export results
>
> So ${results} should normally refer to the same directory as
> ${OUTPUT_DIR}. However, the pwd command always returns absolute
> results so therefore ${results} is absolute as well, while
> ${OUTPUT_DIR} is relative if I recall correctly. So your earlier idea
> that ${results} refers to a pathname too long for Windows to handle
> _might_ be the explanation of why ${OUTPUT_DIR} works but ${results} does
> not. On the other hand, the thread starting at
> http://lists-archives.org/mingw-users/18294-msys-bash-maximum-length-of-command-line-arguments.html
>
>
> indicates the Windows pathname limit is 8191 characters, and in any
> case we are using bash here which that thread implies has even a longer
> pathname limit.
>
> I have no explanation of why the Tcl results are not showing up in the
> summary except possibly they are put into the wrong directory. Maybe
> the absolute pathname really is needed? I will look further at all of
> this once I have downloaded and installed everything I need (including
> Tcl) to do a thorough test of PLplot under wine.
>
> Alan
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