Hi Maurice, now that is a candidate: MS Word has the tendency to make things more "beautiful", like smart quotation marks and long dashes instead of minus signs/hyphens. Chances are that text editors (and even the DOS window) can handle these characters by showing the appropriate glyphs.
Regards, Arjen > -----Original Message----- > From: Maurice LeBrun [mailto:m...@brownwolf.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 8:37 AM > To: Arjen Markus > Cc: PLplot development discussion > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Examples not generated during build > > I saw something very similar & strange happen with a software product in the > not > too recent past. We were seeing syntax errors from the command interpreter, > from > a line that looked completely fine. On a hunch, I had the person delete what > appeared to be a dash, then insert a '-' from his US keyboard. It worked! > Some > sort of translation issue, coupled with the origination point for the script > being from a > Japanese locale system. > > Maurice > > On Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 05:51:41 (+0000) Arjen Markus writes: > > HI Thorsten, > > > > I am glad you have found the "reason" - this is on the border of "bizarre" > and it is > not something I would have been able to guess. Anyway, it shows you are never > too old to be surprised by a computer system. > > > > Regards, > > > > Arjen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Thorsten Behrens [mailto:thorsten.behr...@dorunth.de] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:01 PM > > To: PLplot development > discussion > > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Examples not generated during > build > > > > Hi Arjen! > > > > > > > I can not find anything suspicious - there is a variable DEVPAK that > > > > > may interfere with BUILD_TEST, but that variable is not set, so it > > > > doesn't > influence this. > > > > > > > > There is no indication in the cmake.out file either as to what is > > > > going > on. > > > > > > > > One desperate suggestion/question: > > > > What happens if you start it in a completely clean directory? Just > > > > > create a brandnew one and run CMake. This should get rid of any cached > > > > information. > > > > > > In the meantime I was able to solve this very strange problem! Thanks for > your > > suggestions that brought me on the correct path and finally made me > find > the > > solution! > > > > > > When using the command line build I was a bit lazy. I already had PLplot > installed > > some years ago (V5.8, IIRC). During that time I created a MS > Word > document > > containing a complete "How to install PLplot" manual (for my > colleagues should they > > also want to install it). Well, now, when again > installing > PLplot (completely from > > scratch, i.e. no installed older version of > PLplot on this > computer) I used that > > document as a guide (and updating it wherever > something has changed). > > > > > > Now, instead of typing the command line I just marked it in that Word > document, > > copied it and pasted it into the command line. It looked > completely > OK to me (and > > still does - BTW, I also copied that line into my first > email on > this topic). However, > > using this pasted text, no examples are build! If, > on the > other hand, I just type the > > command character by character (everything > else > being the same, i.e. build > > directory completely cleaned before) > everything is > fine ... all examples are built. > > > > > > Why this happens is a complete mystery to me! If, instead of pasting the > text > into > > the command line pasting it into any text editor (emacs, notepad), > there > are no > > strange/control characters. It just looks identical to the > typed-in version. > But CMake > > generates two different build directories. > > > > > > I will now put a remark into my installation manual and everything > should be > fine. > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > Thorsten Behrens > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Plplot-devel mailing list > > > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel > > > > 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. 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