sddsplot SDDSToolKit-2.9-1 bug

[petrenko]

Dear colleagues,

After I have upgraded the SDDS Toolkit to the latest version (SDDSToolKit-2.9-1.i386.rpm) the sddsplot command stopped working.
Now it says "child killed: write on pipe with no readers" the first time you run any sddsplot command and then sddsplot just does not produce any output at all.

Downgrading back to SDDSToolKit-2.7-1.i386.rpm solves the problem for me, however I think it should be reported.

The system: Fedora Release 12 (Constantine) Kernel Linux 2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE Gnome 2.28.2
The test command used: sddsplot data.sdds -col=x,y

Best regards,
/Alexey

[soliday]

OK, I see the problem. It is only in the 32 bit release. I will attempt to fix this asap.

[soliday]

The underlying problem with distributing code on linux is that you either have to build a special build for every version of linux because the shared library names are different, or you have to build static programs. Unfortunately it is impossible to build sddsplot statically so I have been using statifier to pack all the shared libraries inside one executable. This no longer seems like a very good option because it doesn't work and was always a little bit hard to work with. I am now trying to contact the makers of Ermine Light to find out their pricing. This will do the same thing as statifier but it works better. I was able to get their trial version working with sddsplot right away.

[soliday]

Okay, it has taken me most of the month to aquire Ermine Light but I got it today and I just posted a new i386 version of the SDDSToolKit RPM to the software web page.

[petrenko]

Thanks a lot! I've just installed the new version on my new machine.