Re: cpan build perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:33 AM Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the advise.

 

However, I cannot see any distribution offering perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot.

Have you asked on the PDL list?

Distributions often use different names, so searching is not trivial.  It helps to

have some experience with the various packaging systems. 

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/?h=perl-pdl-git last activity was 2015

https://ports.macports.org/port/p5.34-pdl-graphics-plplot/details/ with

no maintainer, no current version, and no binary packages for current versions of macOS. 

 

Nevertheless, this package is still active

https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Graphics::PLplot

 

If I cannot compile for the source, how can I make it compatible with my

distribution?

See if anyone has done the work to fix the source.  If the package has been abandoned

by mainstream platforms you should look for alternatives.

cpanm PDL::Graphics::PLplot

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install PDL::Graphics::PLplot

 

Is this acceptable?

 

Thank

 

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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 1:55 PM
From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: cpan build perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 4:14 AM Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2022-07-15 14:35, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > I am trying to obtain perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot
>
> This package was retired a long time ago in Fedora because it failed to
> build.
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot

Maybe, but I need to make it works. I have a key application based on this
package.

 

Usually failure to build from source (FTBFS) affects multiple distributions as well

as Apple open-source projects (macports, homebrew).  A bit of searching should 

tell you if the package is available in other distributions (debian is usually a good

place to start).   The look in the source packages for patches that fix your issue.  

 

I've been in a similar bind many times.  You need to determine whether FTBFS

has a simple fix (which you may be able to steal from another distro) or will need

a major effort, in which case you should consider alternatives to the failing

application. 

>
> > callback.c: In function 'labelfunc_callback':
> > callback.c:243:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
> >    243 |   snprintf( label_text, length, (char *)SvPV_nolen(ST(0)) );
> >        |   ^~~~~~~~
> > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>
> This is bad code.  You will need to figure out how to disable that
> compiler option ("-Werror=format-security").
> _______________________________________________
 

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