Re: svg terminal is unsupported in djgpp gnuplot 4.2.2

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

On Monday 04 February 2008 13:32, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > gnuplot> set term svg
> >                   ^
> >          unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >          
> > Is this a bug ?
> 
> Not quite.  It's a completely accurate message: in this gnuplot binary, 
> 'svg' is an ambiguous terminal name.  It could match either 'svga' or 
> 'svg'.  And somebody decided that gnuplot should output an error message 
> in this case.
> 
> The code is supposed to be able to recognize an exact match and report 
> it in spite of the ambiguity, but somehow this failed.

It is a bug, yes.

The code works correctly on the pairs
   pdf / pdfcairo
   png / pngcairo

But fails on the svg/svga case because the longer name is encountered
before the shorter name.

I'll fix it.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt