Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: >Hmm... It's interesting how my comment about a parallel windows scripting >system for ctest has sparked so much interest. A consensus seems to have >formed for building jim/tcl as part of PLplot and making jim scripts with >the same functionality as plplot-test.sh and the var

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, > I appreciate your conservative approach to this topic. So I tried to get > win-bash > to work on my PC (http://win-bash.sf.net). Installing it is a non-issue > - just get > the executable and put it in a convenient directory. However, when I simply > tried to run plplot-test.sh, it c

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Arjen Markus
Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > > I think win-bash finds it, but has problems during execution, since > the error message is: > plplot_test.sh: 248352: No such file or directory > > while for executing a nonexisting file reveals > no_exist.sh: no_exist.sh: No such file or directory > > all o

Re: [Plplot-devel] Changes to the PLplot web page?

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi, >> Aside, I guess that now that we've lost Rafael we won't be switching >> over to Subversion? > > ... If somebody > is interested in using the conversion tool to convert our CVS repository to > subversion, and then testing the result to see how well it could reproduce > our complete CVS Chan

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-11-29 12:06+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Argh, why didn't I think of that! You are most probably right. Well, I > will check > what is happening (or rather, what is not happening) later then. > (Debugging shell > scripts is always, well, cumbersome) Just learned a trick about that from (htt

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi, > I hope he didn't mean that... :-) I want to keep the current scripting > intact for the Unix side of everything since shell scripting is installed by > default for Unix and most Unix developers understand it. OTOH, Tcl is not > installed by default, and I am not sure that most Unix develope

Re: [Plplot-devel] Changes to the PLplot web page?

2006-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-11-29 13:08+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > >>> Aside, I guess that now that we've lost Rafael we won't be switching >>> over to Subversion? >> >> ... If somebody >> is interested in using the conversion tool to convert our CVS repository >> to >> subversion, and then testing the resul

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, thanks for the hint. It shows that it finds the file: C:\DevZone\plplot\buildnmake\test>bash -x plplot_test.sh + version=5.7.1 + dirname= + EXAMPLES_DIR=. + SRC_EXAMPLES_DIR=. + OUTPUT_DIR=. + device=psc + export EXAMPLES_DIR SRC_EXAMPLES_DIR OUTPUT_DIR device + test 0 -gt 0 + test ! -d

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-11-29 18:02+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > We might first try the win-bash approach and if we have a show stopper we can > go for the windows batch files. Sounds good. On the question of win-bash showstoppers, you commmented before "cmake doesn't like sh.exe in the path if I use MinGW/CLI

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, > > "cmake doesn't like sh.exe in the path if I use MinGW/CLI combination, I > have to rename it, run cmake, rename sh again to run the tests." > > I have just had an idea about that. I suggest you put the directory > where win-bash occurs last on your PATH. For those platforms with a

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-11-29 19:48+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: Hi Werner: >> I have just had an idea about that. I suggest you put the directory >> where win-bash occurs last on your PATH. For those platforms with an >> official shell (MinGW/MSYS, Cygwin, etc.) you will always use that >> official >> shell (wh

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:06+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: Argh, why didn't I think of that! You are most probably right. Well, I will check what is happening (or rather, what is not happening) later then. (Debugging shell scripts is always, well, cumbersome) Just learned a tr

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, > The Bourne shell uses -s if I remember correctly, but I never thought of > putting these options in the magic first line. Good idea, though! > > Anyway, the culprit for the failure is clear: cat. It does not exist on > Windows, > so I will change the script to use echo instead (as th

Re: [Plplot-devel] convenient windows developing

2006-11-29 Thread Arjen Markus
Werner Smekal wrote: > I think this won't be the only command you will not find, e.g. sed is > later used on, and there is no windows command I know of, that has > this functionality. I use the very well ported GNUWin32 tools: > > http://GNUWin32.sf.net > > It has all the GNU Tools you need: cor