On 2013-07-17 13:21+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:11:03 +0200 > "Arjen Markus" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Well, running a further test now ... >> > > The test has completed, but the final report claims there > are (almost) no Tcl test results available. This turns out > to be due to a strange character in the name of the PS-files > that are generated: UNICODE "0DF0" > The name is now something like: x01t.psc? > (where ? is the above character) > > This will require further investigation ...
According to my resources 0DF0 is an unassigned unicode character so that is a pretty peculiar symptom. My strong advice for dealing with such issues is to simplify, simplify, and then do it again. There are two possible outcomes to that simplification process. (1) You will be able to remove PLplot from the equation and end up with a simple tcl script with no reference to PLplot that can be executed using tclsh that clearly shows the bad filename for the file that is created. In this case, you can use that simple example in a bug report to the Cygwin mailing list. (2) You will prove that the issue only occurs when PLplot is part of the mix. In which case it is a PLplot bug that is exposed for Tcl/Cygwin which we will have to figure out. I also wanted to emphasize your most important result which is that you got the test_noninteractive target to work properly for the first time on the Cygwin platform. Congratulations on that achievement! I suggest you follow up on that achievement by installing a much more comprehensive Cygwin. Your goal should be to eliminate most/all the warning messages in cmake.out about missing components. In particular, I know from searching at http://cygwin.com/packages that official Cygwin packages exist for at least pkg-config, swig, python, java, lua, pango, and Qt4, and once those are installed your cmake.out warning messages will likely guide you to several more Cygwin packages that you should install. Installing additional components of Cygwin is important since it allows you to finally do a comprehensive test of most/all of the PLplot functionality on Cygwin. You will likely have to disable some of the potential components, (e.g., Tk for the reasons we have mentioned before). But knowing what the boundaries are and having good test results for everything inside the boundaries should be a lot of help to Cygwin users of PLplot. In addition, this follow up should be personally useful to you since I think you will be amazed at the quality of the PLplot results that can be achieved with, e.g., the qt devices or the cairo devices. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
