Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-19 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi all: After just building a set of custom RPMs for the new plplot and all its dependencies (including cmake), I would just as soon not see plplot's build system changed again soon. I also struggle with understanding cmake (I have not spent much time on it, but it seems confusing) but a chang

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-19 Thread Hazen Babcock
Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, >> But what about Python? If I was trying to build a system from >> scratch with >> the same goals as cmake (as far as I understand that from the >> reading that I >> have done about it), there is no way on earth I would've started off >> by >> defining a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, > > But what about Python? If I was trying to build a system from > scratch with > the same goals as cmake (as far as I understand that from the > reading that I > have done about it), there is no way on earth I would've started off > by > defining a new language. Especially no

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > I think the explanation must be you are running into previously unknown > build issues because you are using the build system for situations > (platforms and library version sets) the rest of us don't have access > to. By definition that class of build-system bugs is har

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Werner Smekal wrote: > On the other side your test case is rather specific. You are using a > bleeding edge distribution - I read about this distribution of Fedora > and it was called genius (because everything is so new) and totally > crazy (because everything is s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-06-17 22:41-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. > Oh, and just for grins: > > % ls ~/F11/icf/lib/libt* > /home/furnish/F11/icf/lib/libtcl8.4.so > /home/furnish/F11/icf/lib/libtclstub8.4.a > /home/furnish/F11/icf

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-06-17 23:54-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Geoffrey Furnish writes: > > I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. > > [...] > > So, it seems that plplot, with cmake 2.6.4, is wrongly concluding that > > even though the tcl executables are at ~/F11/icf/bin, and t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, although I can't help you with your special problem with the tcl/tk libraries, I can only comment your emails and tell you why there are problems. From my experience I can tell, that I don't have these problems you have. I'm working on several Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Red

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. > [...] > So, it seems that plplot, with cmake 2.6.4, is wrongly concluding that > even though the tcl executables are at ~/F11/icf/bin, and the headers at > ~/F11/icf/include, and the correspondin

[Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi guys, I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. I have built a "prefix" with Tcl/Tk, and Python in it. I run cmake (Fedora 11 provides cmake version 2.6.4) and the subsequent build thusly: cat > run_cmake.sh <<-EOF env PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH \ cmak