On 2016-12-14 12:09-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hm, > > Updating my MinGW-w64/MSYS2 installation was probably a bad idea: [...] > I will have to reinstall it. Preferably at a quiet time, when no Cygwin shell > is running :(.
Well, if I recall correctly, the last time we discussed the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 version of cmake, the conclusion then was your install of that platform had problems just like every other MinGW-w64/MSYS2 user at that time so a complete reinstall was recommended, but I suspect you did not do that. But now is your chance to do that in the next several weeks. Note there is no rush on that before Christmas since I think your current test results are adequate for this release, but when you do tackle MinGW-w64/MSYS2 testing again post-release starting with a fresh install, I suggest you look very carefully at all the packages at <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/> and <http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/>. (From advice I got on the MSYS2 list these are the two fundamental x86_64 repositories you have access to from a fresh install so they should always by definition be completely up-to-date about what is possible for you to install on any given day.) Relying on my traditional MinGW/MSYS experience and for the "MSYS Makefiles" generator you are using, I believe you should install the make version from the "msys" repository. And you should also install bash from the "msys" repository because there is no other choice then that on the mingw side. However, for every package where there is a choice (such as cmake, swig, the gcc-compiler suite, etc.,) you should install packages from the "mingw" repository. Does that installation strategy make sense? Note, Greg Jung found on this platform that CMake was linked with Qt5 so you had to stick with Qt5 for PLplot as well (or otherwise there was a packaging conflict between Qt4 and Qt5). But that is fine, if Qt5 is already installed (due to your cmake installation), then the PLplot build system will just find and use that with nothing additional you have to do. Likely the best advice I can give you for this Linux-like (except for the core parts which are native Windows, of course) free software distribution, is to keep careful file records of everything you install and update. (I have found that habit to be invaluable for Debian.) Typically, I capture such output with the "tee" command, e.g., apt-get install python-pil |tee -a 20161202 where "apt-get install python-pil" is one Debian way to install the python-pil package, and "tee -a 20161202" appends all the output from that command to the file 20161202 (which keeps track of all installation activity on that date for me) and also the tee command echos its input to stdout (i.e., normally your terminal where you can see it in case you have to respond interactively to an installation question). Also please look carefully at cmake.out warnings and get rid of those as much as possible by installing absolutely everything required by PLplot that is packaged by MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Assuming you do that, your next tests on this platform will be extremely powerful ones. In fact this could be the most powerful version of PLplot that you have access to on Windows since MinGW-w64/MSYS2 packaging now appears to be getting ahead of Cygwin packaging, e.g., MinGW-w64/MSYS2 already packages CMake 3.7.0 (in the "mingw" repository) while Cygwin packaging is still stuck with CMake-3.6.2. BTW, I see the expected three good dashboards from your recent Cygwin comprehensive test so I am looking forward to seeing the corresponding report tarball which should finish your comprehensive testing for this release with any luck at all. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
