On 2007-09-06 00:06-0400 David Strang wrote: > Hello all: > > I installed Kubuntu Linux on a PC a few weeka ago and thought I would try > installing > the latest PLPLOT (574). I've been using PLPLOT since the early days of the > Amiga. > > How do I get this distribution compiled and installed?
Generally, follow the directions at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/. However, it appears you may have looked at those already so I will attempt to summarize the absolutely essential stuff below. > > I unpacked the tarball to my home directory (for now) and made a build > directory at the > same level. > > I ran: > > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../build_dir -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON ../plplot-5.7.4 >& cmake.out Try to distinguish clearly between source, build, and install directory trees. The root of the source directory tree is where the tarball is unpacked (plplot-5.7.4). To make your life simple, never run a build from there (and if you have done so by accident, remove the source directory and make a fresh start with a freshly unpacked tarball). The root of the build directory should be initially empty. That is the directory you cd to before you run "cmake", "make", and "make install". By separating the source tree and build tree you keep the source tree untouched. I presume from the name you have given it, you want that root of the build tree to be build_dir. So cd to that directory (and make sure it is initially empty) before you run cmake, etc. The root of the install tree is the installation prefix where "make install" installs stuff. It should not be build_dir. Let's suppose you want to use the $(HOME)/install_dir installation prefix. (I have specified $(HOME)/install_dir because I believe you need an absolute path for the install prefix.) So assuming you are in build_dir, the above command should be cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(HOME)/install_dir -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \ ../plplot-5.7.4 >& cmake.out But that difference in -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX only matters at the "make install" stage. I had a look at your cmake.out, and you are missing a lot of stuff you may want to get later (generally by installing development libraries that PLplot extended functionality [bindings and drivers] depends on), but it looks like everything worked to configure a simple build of the core of PLplot (+ C++ and Fortran 77 bindings). You may have thought nothing happened with make because a build of such a limited version of PLplot is going to be extremely fast. With a fresh start (freshly unpacked tarball, initially empty build_dir), what does your make.out file look like? I suspect it will be fine with no errors. If so, then move on to make install >& make_install.out cd $(HOME)/install_dir/share/plplot5.7.4/examples make >& make_examples.out That latter command builds the installed examples. If you want to test them run ./plplot-test.sh from that same directory. Of course, check out the *.out files for any errors/warnings, and if you encounter some post the complete set of *.out files (no need to repeat cmake.out, of course since you have already sent it) up to and including the error to this list (preferably as a compressed tarball attachment). 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
