On 2013-12-10 08:06-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I will contact the Tcl+Cygwin expert about this.
While waiting for his reply I suggest you simply try the experiment of applying the patch you can obtain from the tcl Cygwin package tarball like I explain below. That is bound to be part of his reply, and it may be his complete reply. Alan > > Regards, > > Arjen > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:37 AM >> To: Arjen Markus >> Cc: PLplot development list >> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] The epa_build project >> >> On 2013-12-09 17:09-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> I am now going to go through the same Cygwin package dissection >>> process for tcl, and I will post later about what I find out in that >>> case. >> >> The Cygwin package tarball for tcl is named tcl-8.5.11-1-src.tar.bz2 which >> you can >> find in any Cygwin mirror. The tcl.cygport file in there shows that the 8.5- >> cygwin.patch and 8.5.10-tea-m4.patch patches are applied, and also shows the >> Tcl >> source subdirectory that is used is unix and not win! I don't see anything >> else in that >> tcl.cygport file that is relevant (at least at the present time when I am >> still fairly >> ignorant of Cygwin packaging procedures). >> >> I am pretty sure that the 8.5.10-tea-m4.patch (which appears to be only for >> Cygwin >> packaging backwards compatibility) is not relevant to the epa_build case so >> for a >> start (probably on Wednesday, see my ToDo list below) I will try the >> 8.5-cygwin.patch >> to see if that helps out the MinGW/MSYS case using the win subdirectory of >> the tcl >> source code. >> (This will be my first attempt at building tcl on MinGW/MSYS.) >> >> Meanwhile, will you please try applying the 8.5-cygwin.patch yourself and >> building tcl >> (using the unix subdirectory) by hand on Cygwin? That patch appears to be >> relevant >> to the errors you encountered when you last attempted to build using the unix >> subdirectory so I have some degree of optimism you will have complete >> success with >> that build. >> >> We should be able to update epa_build/tcl/CMakeLists.txt to codify whatever >> we >> discover is required to get build success on Cygwin and/or MinGW/MSYS. >> >> To put this all in context, here is what I plan to do in the next two days >> in the order >> given here. >> >> (1) I have finished implementing a completely clean epa_build of qt4_lite >> today >> (which only takes 15 minutes by the way) on Linux. This is an extrmely >> welcome >> result since it fills in the last hole (except for octave) in the epa_build >> configurations >> for the PLplot dependencies and enables one of our best device drivers. When >> testing that build I got through most PLplot qt-related tests, but I also >> discovered >> some release-critical issues with the PLplot (not >> epa_build) build-system for the qt components of PLplot. So dealing with >> those is my >> number-one priority. >> >> (2) Deal with the epa_build issues for pkg-config I described in my previous >> post >> which will require MinGW/MSYS testing which unfortunately is painfully slow >> on Wine. >> >> (3) Deal with the epa_build issues for tcl mentioned here for the MinGW/MSYS >> case >> which will also be painfully slow on Wine. >> >> I hope to finish (1) and (2) by Tuesday, and (3) by Wednesday, but we will >> see how it >> goes. >> >> Alan >> __________________________ >> Alan W. 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