On 2014-11-28 12:12-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote: > [...]Then I tried copying the entire install directory to a different location > (if they are to become part of the Fortran Tools, they need to run > in an arbitrary location, so people can install them in different places).
Hi Walt: It appears to me you have pin-pointed the issue; PLplot needs access to Hershey font files, color map files, and the directory where the drivers are located. For example 19 to work it also needs access to map files. All those data are installed in certain hard-coded locations in the install tree. So if you attempt to copy the install directory to a different location, for example, and the original installation is lost or inaccessible (say on a different computer), PLplot won't be able to find the data it needs without all the workarounds that Arjen mentioned. CMake does support DESTDIR (see <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/DESTDIR.html for a discussion of that concept), and that might be some partial help to you. For example, make DESTDIR=<staging directory> install allows you to collect the installation files in a different "staging" prefix location then their final location as specified by the CMake cached variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. This is very helpful for package managers. And it also might be a help to you where you appear to need additional install locations. However, note that the hard-coded locations referred to above all use the install prefix specified by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (for obvious reasons since that is the only install prefix known at build time) so if you used DESTDIR to install PLplot with a lot of different install prefixes, those would only work if you used the workarounds suggested by Arjen to help PLplot find what it needed in the location specified by DESTDIR (as opposed to the hard-coded locations with the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX that it already knows about). 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
