Re: Calling term->option() in init_terminal()

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Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 12:59 am, Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
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>> Ethan in particular, as you were not there to give your point of view,
>>
>> Dmitri A. Sergatskov reported a problem to compile from CVS a few days=
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>> ago on the list. 'make' on a fresh installation fails in tutorial=20
>> because gnuplot_x11 is not found.=20
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>
> I replied separately just a moment ago, but to recap:
> I can reproduce the error messages easily enough, and I understand why
> your patch makes them go away. =20
>
> But I cannot reproduce the build failure. =20
> For me it emits these messages but completes normally, as you would exp=
ect
> since the x11 driver is not actually used by the scripts in this direct=
ory.
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Did you start from a clean tree with the tutorial/eg?.tex absent ?

I do get the same error as Dmitri, but I agree that there seems to be=20
some hidden bug here.

As I was playing with ./src/gnuplot before 'make install', I was able to=20
hang gnuplot:

$ ./src/gnuplot
...
Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot> set term x11
Terminal type set to 'x11'
Options are '0'
gnuplot> Expected X11 driver: /home/tipote/libexec/gnuplot/4.1/gnuplot_x1=
1
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details
plot x
Expected X11 driver: /home/tipote/libexec/gnuplot/4.1/gnuplot_x11
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details

=3D> here gnuplot doesn't come back to command line, a ctrl-c does the=20
trick though.

> As to the patch you sent Dmitri, isn't it more logical to fix things
> by having the Makefile set GNUTERM to "pslatex" prior to calling
> gnuplot?
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Yes, indeed.

Timoth=C3=A9e