Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 484519
plplot examples do not really work and plplot-test.sh fails
Last modified: 2009-12-18 02:50:47 EST
Description of problem: It all started because I tried to get some plplot support for Octave. There is really no documentation for that ('rpm -qd plplot-octave' comes back empty) so I decided to have a look at examples. Let's skip such details that 'plplot-test.sh' insists on running from writable directory, does not skip non-existent front end scripts even if that could be trivally tested, and other assorted weirdness. 'plplot-5.9.0-2.svn8752.fc10' package comes with test_python.sh and test_tcl.sh. Running plplot-test.sh with '--front-end=python' does that for a while to terminate the whole run with: Testing front-end python PLplot library version: 5.9.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./python/x20", line 36, in <module> import xw20 File "/usr/share/plplot5.9.0/examples/python/xw20.py", line 291, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/plplot5.9.0/examples/python/xw20.py", line 219, in main plabort("No such file") NameError: global name 'plabort' is not defined If you will try '--front-end=tcl' instead then this will end immediately with: ./test_tcl.sh: line 30: cd: ./tcl: No such file or directory ./test_tcl.sh: line 34: pltcl: command not found /usr/bin/pltcl does show up after an installation of plplot-tk package. That does not help with /usr/share/plplot5.9.0/examples/tcl/ at all so this is not going very far anyway (and besides test_tcl.sh seems to be even more broken then the rest). Trying '--front-end=perl', after plplot-perl package was installed and a test directory set accordingly, brings this for a change: ./plplot-test.sh --front-end="perl" --output-dir=./perl.out --device=ps Testing front-end perl PLplot library version: 5.9.0 *** PLPLOT WARNING *** plParseOpts: function deprecated. Use plparseopts instead .... (repeated many times) .... Assertion ((svtype)((_svi)->sv_flags & 0xff)) >= SVt_RV failed: file "PLplot.xs", line 25192 at ./perl/x16.pl line 186. Last, but not least, with that octave I really wanted to see. That ends up immediately in this way: error: A(idx) = []: index out of range error: assignment failed, or no method for `string = string' error: evaluating assignment expression near line 5, column 27 but in octave examples there is plplot_octave_demo.m. Hopes are immediately dashed out after this: $ octave -f plplot_octave_demo.m GNU Octave, version 3.0.3 .... Press any key to continue... error: `plplot_stub' undefined near line 29 column 1 error: near line 29 of file `plplot_octave_demo.m' And that's all folks .... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plplot-5.9.0-2.svn8752.fc10 How reproducible: always
Some of these are problems with the way plplot expects the tests to be installed and run, other are problems with the current mix of software. Can you try the packages from here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1125833 but first edit /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/plplot-test.sh and change line 279 to: front_end=${front_end_status/:ON/} (remove the first $). On my system with plplot, plplot-libs, plplot-tk, plplot-octave I get: Testing front-end octave /home/orion/plplottest/.. You are in Locate mode. Click any mouse button or press any key and the current cursor position will be printed. Please keep <NumLock> and <CapsLock> off. Terminate locate mode with the <Enter> key. Finish the plot with the <Enter> or <ESC> key or the 3d mouse button Error: No such file ans = 0 Output file name is ./x31o.psc Testing front-end python /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw19.py:66: DeprecationWarning: PyArray_FromDimsAndDataAndDescr: use PyArray_NewFromDescr. plmap(nullmapform,"usaglobe", minx, maxx, miny, maxy) /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw19.py:75: DeprecationWarning: PyArray_FromDimsAndDataAndDescr: use PyArray_NewFromDescr. plmap(nullmapform, "usaglobe", minx, maxx, miny, maxy) /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw19.py:83: DeprecationWarning: PyArray_FromDimsAndDataAndDescr: use PyArray_NewFromDescr. plmap(mapform19,"globe", minx, maxx, miny, maxy) /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw19.py:86: DeprecationWarning: PyArray_FromDimsAndDataAndDescr: use PyArray_NewFromDescr. plmeridians(mapform19,10.0, 10.0, 0.0, 360.0, -10.0, 80.0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/x20", line 36, in <module> import xw20 File "/usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw20.py", line 304, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/python/xw20.py", line 234, in main plabort("No such file") NameError: global name 'plabort' is not defined Testing front-end tcl /usr/share/plplot5.9.2/examples/test_tcl.sh: line 34: test.error: Permission denied cat: test.error: No such file or directory So, still some work to do, but getting closer....
Created attachment 332132 [details] an output from running test examples > Can you try the packages from here In a copy of 'examples' directory, and after an indicated correction, I ended up running the following script: export ITCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/tcl8.5/itcl3.4/ drivers=" python perl octave tcl " for d in $drivers ; do echo "==== $d" mkdir -p ./$d.out ./plplot-test.sh --verbose \ --front-end=$d \ --output-dir=./$d.out --device=ps done That produced for python, perl, octave and tcl respectively 21, 12, 43, and 34 of Postscript files. In a spot check results look quite sane. A screen output is attached.
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