Re: compile and install errors

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > I've uncommented this line, compiled further, and then I'm getting messages 
> > that set_numeric_locale and reset_numeric_locale are not known. Has not 
> > ./configure overlooked some of my missing libraries?
> > 
> > > 1. in compiling gnuplot 4.2 cvs
> > > util.c: In function ‘gprintf’:
> > > util.c:757: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
> > > make[3]: *** [util.o] Error 1
> > > 
> > > The line is:
> > >     /* dot is the default decimalsign we will be replacing */
> > >     dot = *get_decimal_locale();
> > > 
> > > The strange thing is that
> > > 	grep -R get_decimal_locale *
> > > does not find this routine in gnuplot source and /usr/include.
> 
> It is defined in variable.h
> 
> It looks to me that your configuration script has not correctly detected
> whether your system supports LOCALE.  From the error messages, I guess
> that your system lacks locale support, but configure didn't notice that.
> Or perhaps you have more than one libc, but one of them has locale
> support and the other doesn't?

It is defined in variable.h in gnuplot-cvs, but not in gnuplot 4.2-cvs.
Comparing variable.h in 4.2.4 and 4.2-cvs, these files are the same.
Comparing util.c, they are different.

I have locale -- tested on OpenSUSE 10.3 and 11.1.

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