Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-19 Thread Werner Smekal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alan, The rest of this post is directed to everybody on this list with access to Mac OS X. I strongly urge you to install both the pango/cairo development libraries and the Qt development libraries and do regular testing with the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Werner: Thanks for updating the wiki with regard to finding the best/easiest sets of pango/cairo and qt library stacks for Mac OS X. And thanks for testing the result with ctest. On 2010-02-19 12:04+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: I wasted numerous hours compiling cairo/pango on Mac OS X. I

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-11 Thread Jerry
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Leo mentioned in an earlier plplot-general thread that it was too time consuming to compile Qt on Mac OS X. However, I don't believe compilation is required in this case. According to http://qt.nokia.com/ downloads, there is an SDK

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-10 Thread Leo
The user said that the xwin driver was ok, so maybe the xcairo driver will work as well? I believe the xwin driver does not use any libraries that ultimately depend on CoreFoundation, whereas the xcairo driver does. I expect that it will crash in the same way. I just installed xcairo and I

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-02-11 02:20- Leo wrote: The user said that the xwin driver was ok, so maybe the xcairo driver will work as well? I believe the xwin driver does not use any libraries that ultimately depend on CoreFoundation, whereas the xcairo driver does. I expect that it will crash in the same

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-07 Thread Hazen Babcock
On Feb 6, 2010, at 8:31 PM, David MacMahon wrote: Hi, Hazen, On Feb 6, 2010, at 8:40 , Hazen Babcock wrote: The gist of it is this statement: if the CoreFoundation library's being initialized - perhaps as a result of that library being loaded as a dependent of some other library - and

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-02-07 12:25-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: On Feb 6, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: What is the status of the AquaTerm project? According to http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=39915 the developers of the AquaTerm project are Marius Amado-Alves, Per Persson,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-07 Thread David MacMahon
On Feb 7, 2010, at 9:15 , Hazen Babcock wrote: On Feb 6, 2010, at 8:31 PM, David MacMahon wrote: Have you actually experienced a crash due to this on Snow Leopard or are you expressing concern about a potential crash? I have not personally experienced this but a user of cl-plplot (the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-07 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Alan, On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:23 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: my understanding from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_(subroutine) is reentrancy implies thread safety. I'm not sure about that. I think a function could utilize thread local storage in a non-reentrant way (i.e. thread

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-02-06 11:40-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: A new problem on OS-X Snow Leopard and the Aquaterm driver has been pointed out to me: It is described here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.openmcl.devel/5447 The gist of it is this statement: if the CoreFoundation library's being

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot / Aquaterm / Snow Leopard problem

2010-02-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Hazen, On Feb 6, 2010, at 8:40 , Hazen Babcock wrote: The gist of it is this statement: if the CoreFoundation library's being initialized - perhaps as a result of that library being loaded as a dependent of some other library - and the current thread is not the initial thread,