On 2015-01-20 14:35-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Just to point out that if you need to configure plplot on a machine without > any physical X display then you can always use the xvfb X server which > provides a dumb framebuffer using virtual memory. This is what the Debian > build does on the build machines precisely to get round this tk problem.
Hi Andrew: That idea might work to solve Arjen's problem with X hanging. But in case it doesn't, and to deal with hangs in general (as I have mentioned to Arjen off list) we should use the TIMEOUT option on all the CMake execute_process commands in cmake/modules/tcl-related.cmake to turn any hang that occurs into an ordinary error (which the existing tcl-related.cmake logic should convert into ENABLE_tk=OFF.) But I am leaving it to Arjen to implement that because he is the one who knows how to provide a hanging X that will test that TIMEOUT option for execute_process works as advertised in the CMake documentation. :-) 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
