Re: [Fink-devel] fink gnuplot 4.2.4-7

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>   
>> Luis Benet wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks for your reply Alexander,
>>>
>>> I use x11 as output terminal all the time. The version that i am using
>>> of libedit
>>> (at least through fink) is 3.0.2.
>>>
>>> I noticed that if i used gnuplot through qgfe, i could zoom by
>>> right-clicking the
>>> mouse, and got actually the correct usual behaviur. How is this possible?
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> I'm not at all sure (I've seen the same thing, though). 
>>
>> If the problem is due to libedit, then qgfe may be providing a way to
>> bypass whatever is going wrong.  It seems odd to me that the mouse zoom
>> issue would be associated with libedit, since that's  for the text
>> history and line editing.
>>   
>>     
>>> I also tried your suggestion of rebuilding gnuplot, but there is no
>>> improvement.
>>> At some point i got the following
>>> warning:
>>> aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
>>> You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not
>>> guaranteed to.
>>> If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system
>>> entirely.
>>> To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically
>>> `autoreconf'.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> That's probably harmless.
>>   
>>     
>>> Could all this be something related to gcc? I have Xcode 3.0 running
>>> which yields
>>> gcc version 4.0.1; on the other hand, /sw/bin/gcc-4  corresponds to 4.3.3
>>>     
>>>       
>> Unlikely.  Fink packages use Xcode's compilers to build unless
>> specifically made not to.
>>   
>>     
>>> Luis
>>>     
>>>       
>> I've tried a couple of things:  rebuild gnuplot with the current
>> libedit, and also with the prior version.  Neither fixed the zooming issue.
>>
>> I'm forwarding this onto the Fink developer list, because I really don't
>> know what's causing the issue, nor how to fix it.  One option we have
>> would be to see if gnuplot's bundled "minimal readline" works (we can't
>> use Fink's GNU readline because gnuplot's license is not GPL-compatible).
>>
>> At least going through qgfe works...
>>   
>>     
> Following up on this:  if I switch to the "minimal readline" bundled in
> the gnuplot tarball, the zoom works for me.
>
> Also, I've found the following (for example) in my history file, when
> switching from a build that uses libedit to one that uses either the
> internal readline or our readline:
>
> gnuplot> set\040term\040x11
>
> I wonder if somehow those stray sequences are getting passed to the x11
> terminal (and the x11-based wxt terminal, which also suffers from
> this).   Is the zoom history text-based, and therefore getting mangled?
>
> I'm inclined just to use the "minimal readline" unless anybody's got a
> fix handy.
>
>   
I've updated gnuplot to 4.2.4-8, which now uses the "minimal readline"
that upstream provides. 

-- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison