gnuplot-beta

observations

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Here's some odds and ends I see when looking through the latest CVS.

To get 'all.dem' to run requires that the binary files be built.  That means a "make all" is required in the demo directory.  Is there a reason building the binary files were left out of the general build process?  Do they fail on some systems?  Maybe put a note in demo/Makefile why they are left out.

There appears to be a new multiline title, which is nice.  However, the multiline title illustrating the example appears to linger and reappear on occassion.  When running all and getting image.dem the line "Same plot with a multi-line title\nshowing adjustment of plot area\n to accommodate it" shows up on top of other titles.  It happens in multiplot mode...  Try doing

load 'layout.dem'
load 'image.dem'

or

load 'layout.dem'
load 'multiplt.dem'

Attached is a patch that fixes a strange line in gplt_x11.c that messes up highlighting in gvim; it appeared to have incorrect parentheses but somehow managed to compile and run.  Don't know how.  The patch makes highlighting correct.

Dan





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Re: observations

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 07 January 2006 04:04 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> To get 'all.dem' to run requires that the binary files be built.  
> That means a "make all" is required in the demo directory.

So what?

> Is there a reason building the binary files were left out of the
> general build process?

"make all" in the demo directory *is* part of the general build process.
 
> There appears to be a new multiline title, which is nice.  

I think you mean "multiplot title".  The number of lines is not relevant.
It's not getting cleared by "unset multiplot".  I'll fix that.

> Attached is a patch that fixes a strange line in gplt_x11.c that messes
> up highlighting in gvim; it appeared to have incorrect parentheses but
> somehow managed to compile and run.

Thanks. Applied.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: observations

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> To get 'all.dem' to run requires that the binary files be built.  That 
> means a "make all" is required in the demo directory.  

It's not.  The usual 'make' in the main directory (that's gnuplot, not 
gnuplot/src!) will already do that for you.

 > Is there a reason
> building the binary files were left out of the general build process?  

They're not, so no reason needed.

> Do they fail on some systems?  Maybe put a note in demo/Makefile why 
> they are left out.

The recommended way for a developer to run 'all.dem' is to 'make check'
(from $top_builddir or $top_builddir/demo).  Making sure all needed 
pieces are present when needed is what 'make' is designed to do, after 
all ;-)