I have just completed running the scripts/comprehensive_test.sh script without issues on Linux (Debian testing) for the master tip version of PLplot as part of the preparation for the forthcoming release of PLplot-5.11.0. So to test this forthcoming release on as wide a variety of platforms as possible before the release, I ask those on this list to run that script on any platform of interest for them.
In order to participate in this test you need all the software installed on your platform that is normally used to help build PLplot. You also need access to bash (since the shell scripts that are used to comprehensively test PLplot have bashisms in them). Such access is easy to obtain on Linux and Mac OS X. Windows is a little more problematic, but bash.exe is provided by any of MinGW/MSYS, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, or Cygwin on Windows platforms. So comprehensive testing on any of those Unix-like Windows platforms should be straightforward if you have installed bash.exe. In theory you should also be able to comprehensivly test MSVC with that script if you simply put one of those bash versions on your PATH and specify appropriate options for scripts/comprehensive_test.sh to use nmake to build the software (using the "NMake Makefiles" generator), and also exclude testing the traditional build of the installed examples (which requires both make and pkg-config which are not consistent with nmake and MSVC) from the comprehensive testing for the MSVC case. To learn more about the many options possible for that script run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --help I also highly recommend that you consult <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Comprehensive%20testing> for more overview details for running that script. Comprehensive testing results for Linux are always welcome, but such results are particularly welcome for Mac OS X, Cygwin, MinGW/MSYS, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and MSVC as well since those platforms are currently not comprehensively tested at all or only tested with a subset of the tests that are possible with scripts/comprehensive_test.sh. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
