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 ;-)