Re: problem building latest cvs snapshot

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

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 1) The first thing that strikes me is that I get the instruction
> "See 'help x11' for more details".  However, how do I see the help
>when I can't get to the program command line?  So, this really
>shouldn't be a critical error in my opinion.  Yes, the x11 driver
> should register an error, but in a graceful way from the command line.
> 
> 2) As for gnuplot attempting to find gnuplot_x11 at start up.
>  Perhaps this should be delayed to the point of first trying to create a plot.

I put a patch on SourceForge that will remove X11_init() from X11_options().  This solves the above problem.  If gnuplot_x11 is missing, the command line behaves as:

Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot> plot x
Expected X11 driver: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.1/gnuplot_x11
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details

Note that the exit is apparently re-routed back to the command line at this point in the program.  So, after I hit return, then the command line prompt comes back.  It isn't the as graceful as it could be, but I think it is good enough for the situation it addresses.

What the ramification of removing that X11_init() is I'm not sure.  Perhaps Ethan has a better feel for that.  There aren't any font characteristics or something that gnuplot_x11 is needed for inside X11_options(), is there?

Dan