Hi Alan, I am currently trying to reproduce the errors you documented via Cygwin, as that is the most convenient platform available to me that comes close to Linux. And while this has the benefit of unearthing the idiosyncracies of Cygwin that we need to deal with it does also slow down my progress. Still, I have good hopes to at least weed out a few more bugs before the release of 5.10.0.
Regards, Arjen > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:45 AM > To: Arjen Markus; Andrew Ross > Cc: PLplot development list > Subject: Still on track for a February 1st release of 5.10.0 > > My personal development goal for this release is to get a clean comprehensive > test > of epa_build results both on Linux and MinGW/MSYS. > So far (aside from the known propagation issues with OCaml) the results of a > somewhat limited version of the test have looked good on PLplot. However, on > MinGW/MSYS this comprehensive test fails at run time with a return code of 3 > for the > installed Ada examples. I encountered this same test failure before when I > hand- > tested 5.9.11 on MinGW/MSYS, and it is good to know the recently updated > (revision > 12946) comprehensive test script finds the problem as well. > > Ada example builds are quite complex with many different directory locations > pointed > to by various flags. My plan for tomorrow is to do such a build by hand > using the > build-tree locations for everything. > And assuming that works (like it does for actual build-tree tests for > MinGW/MSYS) gradually change over all locations to the install-tree > counterparts > until I run into the build issue that is causing the return code of 3 at run > time. > > If the MSYS version of strace worked, that would likely be an even quicker > way to > solve this issue. But currently I have not been able to get it to work so I > have a query > into the MinGW mailing list about that issue. > > So that is the status of what I am working on currently. I also encourage > both Arjen > and Andrew (who have both told me they plan some bug fixing between now and > the > 5.10.0 release) to give progress reports and updated plans from time to time > here so > I don't get surprised by anything they do. > > 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 > __________________________ DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
