[Plplot-devel] segfaults in cairo devices under plplot5.9.9 with older pango/cairo

2012-05-17 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi all: I'm just now upgrading to plplot 5.9.9 in my CentOS 5.8 environment. This OS features old pango/cairo versions: pango-1.14.9-8.el5.centos.3 pango-devel-1.14.9-8.el5.centos.3 cairo-1.2.4-5.el5 cairo-devel-1.2.4-5.el5 When I run example 1 with any of the cairo devices, I get a segfault:

Re: [Plplot-devel] segfaults in cairo devices under plplot5.9.9 with older pango/cairo

2012-05-17 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi again: I've become frustrated with trying to install a recent pango/cairo under CentOS 5.8--too many dependencies. So, in trying to debug the segfault, I've found that: ./x01c -dev pngcairo -o foo.png finally dies beyond tracing (in the plplot code, anyway) at: line 289 of plcore: 289 (

Re: [Plplot-devel] segfaults in cairo devices under plplot5.9.9 with older pango/cairo

2012-05-17 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi a third time: It seems that this problem with the cairo drivers (for old pango/cairo) cropped up some time between plplot5.9.7 and 5.9.8, since the problem is not there for 5.9.7, but is there for 5.9.8. Regards, Doug dh...@ucar.edu Software Engineer UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 O