Re: gnuplot 4.2 fails to run gretl files

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Ethan Merritt quoted:

> > Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal non-
> > scalable font
>
> Which suggests that gretl is running in a different environment
> and therefore doesn't see your GDFONTPATH.

Yes, must be.

> > Then I run gretl from command line to get more error messages and here is what
> > I have:
> > gnuplot: using libgd png driver
> > stderr: 'Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal
> > non-scalable font
> > '
> > gretl_errmsg: 'Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using
> > internal non-scalable font
> > '
> > Failed command: 'gnuplot "/home/snvv101/.gretl/gpttmp.hIR18b"'
> >
> > Finally, I do believe this should be a libgd problem?
>
> I don't think so.  Your first test demonstrates that libgd is able to
> find the font correctly.  Does gretl maybe scrub its environment on entry?

No, gretl respects the environment as it finds it.

Allin Cottrell