Re: [Plplot-devel] New test script

2008-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-14 19:51+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > [...]I have put some effort into cleaning up the examples > and adding missing functions in the language bindings. As a result I now > get complete agreement between the C, C++, f77 and f95 examples. This is > a great step forward. The octave, java and

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl examples and a Windows problem

2008-08-14 Thread Arjen Markus
>>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Andrew Ross wrote: >>> >> >> MSVC 6.0 does not like the long long type in plplot.h! >> >> This is odd: things worked before - the problem is that this >> compiler does not have a stdint.h, so the fallback is used. >> > > Actually MSVC 6.0 on my machine

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl examples and a Windows problem

2008-08-14 Thread Arjen Markus
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Andrew Ross wrote: >> > > MSVC 6.0 does not like the long long type in plplot.h! > > This is odd: things worked before - the problem is that this > compiler does not have a stdint.h, so the fallback is used. > Actually MSVC 6.0 on my machine does not li

[Plplot-devel] Tcl examples and a Windows problem

2008-08-14 Thread Arjen Markus
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Andrew Ross wrote: > > Tcl is lagging well behind. We're lacking any dedicated tcl users to > help with this. > Now that the Fortran examples and bindings are so nicely in shape, I want to dedicate some time to Tcl. Having said that, while waiting for a

Re: [Plplot-devel] New test script

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Andrew Ross wrote: > > I have added a new script to the ctest suite. This will run after all > the existing tests and will compare the postscript output from the > different language bindings. > > For each binding present (other than C) it will list > 1

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:14:25AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Doing gdb sessions in the build tree is pretty tricky because of all the > > setup (e.g., setting environment variables) you have to do first. So I > > don't > > recommend it except for rare emergencies where you get errors i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can't eliminate legend string problem in Ada example 17

2008-08-14 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 12:56:45 (-0500) Maurice LeBrun writes: > On Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 10:18:32 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > > On 2008-08-14 09:58-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > > > For C & C++, a const pointer means the memory it points to cannot be > altered. >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can't eliminate legend string problem in Ada example 17

2008-08-14 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 10:18:32 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2008-08-14 09:58-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > For C & C++, a const pointer means the memory it points to cannot be > > altered. > > The pointer can. So for example > > > >const char *foo = "bar"; > > > >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can't eliminate legend string problem in Ada example 17

2008-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-14 09:58-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > For C & C++, a const pointer means the memory it points to cannot be altered. > The pointer can. So for example > >const char *foo = "bar"; > > (or later reassignment) is perfectly legit. After years of dabbling at C, this pointer stuff still

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-14 08:14-0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My problem is that I'm building RPM packages and so it's pretty much > impossible to do the testing in the install tree. I'll work on a patch. Thanks in advance, Orion. I suggest instead of using --debug, you use --extra-verbose as the name of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can't eliminate legend string problem in Ada example 17

2008-08-14 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 03:29:28 (-0700) Jerry writes: > Just a note that I can't seem to fix the problem in Ada example 17 > (stripchart demo) wherein all of the legend strings appear on the > plot identical to the fourth one. I've tried a lot of things and at > this point I'm af

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread orion
> Doing gdb sessions in the build tree is pretty tricky because of all the > setup (e.g., setting environment variables) you have to do first. So I > don't > recommend it except for rare emergencies where you get errors in the build > tree but not the install tree. Furthermore, ctest doesn't have

[Plplot-devel] Can't eliminate legend string problem in Ada example 17

2008-08-14 Thread Jerry
Just a note that I can't seem to fix the problem in Ada example 17 (stripchart demo) wherein all of the legend strings appear on the plot identical to the fourth one. I've tried a lot of things and at this point I'm afraid it will have to be a "known issue." The crux is matching e.g. this de

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:11:54PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2008-08-13 22:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > In principal I like the idea of being able to see the examples as they > > are exectuted. I wonder whether the whole command line is necessary > > though. Perhaps just echoing the exampl