On 2016-03-24 10:22-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > > That certainly did the trick. See the attached list of packages after running > "pacman -Sy"
Excellent news, and thanks for that list. If you look for "installed" in that list, you will find that (as you said before) you are out of date on quite a few of the packages including cmake. Which simply verifies MinGW-w64/MSYS2 is a rolling release much like Cygwin and Debian testing in this regard where some new versions of a relatively small subset of the packages tend to be available every day. Anyhow, your next actions on this platform should be to do the following: 1. Update your package list (in case there are a few more changes since you did that earlier today) and also upgrade your whole MinGW-w64/MSYS2 system using the "pacman -Syu" command (taken as an example right out of the pacman man page). 2. Assuming 1. works, then run Fortran-only comprehensive testing. 3. Assuming 2. works, install all PLplot-relevant packages for the platform. 4. Assuming 3. works, do a minimally constrained comprehensive test with some iteration with 3 depending on what complaints about missing packages you get from cmake.out. The next question is how often should you do a system upgrade? When I used to run Debian testing, I got quite neurotic about keeping absolutely up to date so I typically ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" daily for a couple of years often with 10-30 or more packages being upgraded each day. There were something like 2000 packages installed in total. On two different occasions a packaging issue for the lastest version of one of those ~2000 packages caused a problem that I had to temporarily work around until the Debian package maintainer fixed their packaging bug. But except for those two occasions the Debian packaging was meticulous which demonstrates the amazing capabilities of the ego-driven Debian packaging volunteers. However, through lack of experience I cannot give you similar assurances about the care that is taken by by those who do Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 packaging so you will likely want to upgrade on a much longer interval than once per day. At the same time I wouldn't let it slide too long so you might want to try upgrading your platform once every month or so including capturing all pacman output to a file so you keep a clear record of everything pacman has done. Debian jessie is also something of a rolling release, but without the extreme flux of packaging changes you get with Debian testing. So to keep meticulous records of what is done by apt-get I currently run cd <directory where I am keeping logs of apt-get output> apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade |& tee -a <unique_file_name> once per month or so, where unique_file_name is the day's date in iso format, e.g., 20160324. In bash, the |& pipeline symbol concatanates stdout and stderr into the pipeline. Also, the unix tee -a command appends the results to the named file and also allows them to be displayed on your terminal which is a very convenient way of keeping an exact record while also watching what is happening and answering any questions that the dist-upgrade wants me to answer. If you do something similar yourself with "pacman -Syu" every month or so you should follow that up by a minimally constrained comprehensive test of PLplot to make sure everything is OK both with all components of PLplot and your MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform. And similarly with Cygwin. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
