Alan, This is good news. A lot of this has been tested by the Debian packages, but not with the current svn and not with quite the same tools (e.g. your use of gcj).
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:30:21PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Since yesterday, I have been installing software packages on my new > Debian wheezy (currently testing but soon to be stable) system that are > required to give about the most comprehensive tests of PLplot that are > possible. The only software packages that I am missing are the agg > library (no Debian package for that), and the perl PDL module > (which is found in Debian, but which from previous experience > will not be compatible with the svn trunk version of PLplot so I > haven't bothered with it.) Through this time, I have been building > and testing bits and pieces of PLplot and making appropriate changes > to PLplot when necessary. AGG is available in Debian in the libagg-dev package. It's is only available as a static library. I don't know why! I have used this in the past. > @ Werner: there is still a question I would appreciate you answering > about how you think we should coordinate the move to D2. For now, > I have accumulated my first steps toward that move into a patch > (for later retrieval) and then reverted my local version > to the svn trunk (D1) version of PLplot for the test mentioned below. I'm happy to help with the D2 move, but I have practically no experience with the D language, so I would defer to Werner's advice on this. > @ Andrew: thanks very much for your advice about dealing with > the many different versions of the gcc toolchain that are > necessary on Debian for full PLplot testing (D1 requires 4.4, Ada > requires 4.6, and the rest [C, C++, gfortran, gcj] require 4.7, but > as you claimed, all those different gcc versions do not interfere > with each other. Glad to hear that. > With this entirely new platform and revision 12238 of the svn trunk > version, and a brand-new CMake version (2.8.9) I had just built, the > results for the test_noninteractive target in the build tree had no > obvious run-time errors. Also, that test included running the the > test_diff_psc target as a dependency, and those results showed there > were no PostScript or output differences between our many different > sets of standard examples for all computer languages that we support. > Similarly, the test_interactive target and the install target had no > obvious run-time errors. All these excellent test results were > obtained for the default configuration (shared libraries and dynamic > device drivers). This is also good to know. On some architectures there are issues with some examples. You can see all the debian build logs (including make test results) for the debian 5.9.9 packages at http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/plplot.html (Link on the RHS to buildd logs) The QA also has other tests / warnings, some about Debian packaging issues, others possible more general. If anyone has access to non-intel based machines with Debian on then further investigation would be useful. > That's really encouraging news about the current (revision 12238) > quality of the svn trunk version of PLplot. Also there doesn't seem > to be any build or test issues with CMake-2.8.9 which is nice to know. Also good to know! I did iron out one or two issues when doing the last Debian packages. > When we get closer to release I plan to do additional kinds of tests > (ctest in the build tree, and the test_interactive and > test_noninteractive targets for the two different build systems > (CMake-based and Makefile+pkg-config based) for the installed examples > tree not only for the default configuration but also for the > combinations shared library+static devices and static library+static > devices. That would be great. As always more extensive testing on a variety of platforms is essential. Another great way for users to get involved. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
