Just a quick response because I'm not at my dev machine. > On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > > On 2015-03-10 10:48-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > [...]There is a third patch that I sent to update the build instructions for > Mac OS X that does not seem to have been applied. > > Hi Jim: > > I don't recall such a patch. > > The last I remember our joint Mac OS X platform work (where you > discovered problems in our build system on that platform, and I > attempted to fix them with commits to master) was interrupted by your > work on plbuf which, of course, is a higher priority. However, > now that a deep freeze for plbuf changes is looming for this release > cycle, I wouldn't mind a bit if you restarted our joint Mac OS X > platform work. > > I am pretty sure that every Mac OS X issue you have described > so far to me has been fixed in master. However, to test that, > you should do the usual PLplot build and test on Mac > OS X for the unpatched current master tip. After that, there > are three possible responses depending on your results. >
I was able to get a build to happen with the master as of 3/7 after I disabled one driver that was causing an error. I wrote up the instructions and submitted a patch (that I will retransmit). > 1. You find no further problems. Then great, we are done! Just one issue with one of the drivers. > > 2. You find a further problem you cannot fix. Then describe > that problem in the usual detail to give me a chance to fix > it. > I don't think you can fix it unless you have a Mac. It has to do with the conflict between XQuartz and xlib from MacPorts. > 3. You find a further problem you can fix. Then send that fix along > to this list via the usual create special topic branch from master > tip, commit of fix, "git format-patch" method. > I will pound on it some after the release. > 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-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
