Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-11 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, yes, I think double-checking is a good thing here. Under Windows file extensions are treated in a very different way than under Linux: they are taken as an indication of the intrinsic type of file. Regards, Arjen On 2010-11-11 12:19, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > I saw your subsequent com

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-11-11 09:04+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On 2010-11-10 21:42, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2010-11-10 08:50+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: >>> The crash (assertion failure) I mentioned with one particular setting >>> of PLPLOT_DRV_DIR is caused solely by the appearance of files with >>>

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-11 Thread Arjen Markus
Just committed a patch to prevent problems if .rc files are parsed that do not appear to be genuine driver information files. Regards, Arjen On 2010-11-11 09:04, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> I am allergic to letting bugs slide (especially if they involve the >> build system) so could yo

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-11 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, On 2010-11-10 21:42, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-11-10 08:50+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > >> On Linux (and OSX?) the first character is a /, so [my commit to > lowercase the first letter of the comparison] should work fine >> too. > > I confirm that, and thanks for this fix which shoul

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-11-10 08:50+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > On Linux (and OSX?) the first character is a /, so [my commit to lowercase the first letter of the comparison] should work fine > too. I confirm that, and thanks for this fix which should make life a lot easier for our Windows Visual Studio users. >

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-09 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, thanks for the explanation, but I already found the cause (by printing what files and directories were examined): If I build the examples via the VS generator, the function plInBuildTree() fails, because the build directory is reported to be "d:\build-plplot" (or similar) and the current

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB

2010-11-09 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 09:57:30 (-0800) Alan W. Irwin writes: > ... > Hi Arjen: > > I have moved this part of the plplot-general thread to plplot-devel > under a new subject. > > Setting PLPLOT_DRV_DIR and PLPLOT_LIB was necessary long ago on the > Unix side of things in order to