PGPLOT - no success under LinuxPPC

[Kristian Nielsen]

> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 09:50:05 +0200
> From: hansen at ill.fr (Thomas Hansen)

> I managed to install McSTAS-1.1 under LinuxPPC on a Macintosh PowerBook G3,
> as well as the installation on MacOS 8.6 using CodeWarrior. However, use of
> gscan, mcplot and mcdisplay only is possible under Linux/Unix ... and there
> there I encountered one problem (up to now ...) during the installation of
> PGPERL. I post here the hopefully helpfull reply to my Linux-specific
> problem.

Hm, it is no absolutely clear to me if you did get pgplot and pgperl to
work in the end -- I guess not? Anyway, I just checked the web site for
Debian GNU/Linux. Debian includes working pgplot/pgperl out of the box,
and Debian is available for PPC (as stable beta). HOWEVER, Debian PPC
Linux does NOT include pgperl and pgplot, sadly. I wonder if there is
some fundamental problem, though it does not appear likely.

Anyway, I am getting really sorry about my choice of pgplot and pgperl
for McStas, a LOT of people have experienced problems. Especially on
Linux, I suspect because of poor Fortran support. At Risø we use Debian,
and since pgplot/pgperl worked flawlessly there, I assumed other linuxes
would be similar. Apparently that is not so, not to mention the Windows
situation.

Anyone knows a good replacement for pgplot? Or failing that, anyone have
tips for pgplot and pgperl on (non-Debian) Linux?

 - Kristian.