Re: gnuplot and DISPLAY

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

Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>   a patch designed to fix the sort of problem that I reported.
> 
> I'm now in the same position vis-a-vis the various computers as 
> when I first reported the issue.  I'm afraid things get weirder.
> 
> (1) Before applying Daniel's patch, the situation is as I 
> described yesterday.  But, taking Ethan's idea, I also tried
> 
>    echo "show version long" | gnuplot
> 
> and this worked OK.
> 
> (2) After applying Daniel's patch and recompiling, my "set term 
> png" echoed to gnuplot produced a failure (as before), but in 
> addition
> 
>    echo "show version long" | gnuplot
> 
> now produced the same X11 failure!
> 
> waverley:~$ echo "show version long" | gnuplot
> 
> gnuplot: unable to open display ''
> gnuplot: X11 aborted.

Strange.  What is the strace this time?


> I then reverted the patch, recompiled, and tried again.  At least 
> the results seem stable: "show version long" piped to gnuplot 
> worked, "set term png" failed.

And the strace for this as well?

I just want to confirm that the system is exiting at the same location and it isn't moved somewhere else after the patch.

Dan