Re: directry name problem? bin is not correctry recognized on windows in some cases

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

--- Petr Mikulikwrote:

> > The directory  constitution is 
> > 
> > gnuplot/bin/wgnuplot.exe
> > gnuplot/bin/wgnuplot_pipes.exe
> > gnuplot/bin/gnuplot.exe
> >        :
> > gnuplot/bin/share/PostScript/(8859-1.ps etc.)
> > gnuplot/bin/share/js/(canvasmath.js etc.)
> > gnuplot/bin/share/lua/share/lua/(gnuplot-tikz.lua etc.)
> > gnuplot/bin/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> > 
> > If I just rename 'bin' to 'binaries', everything works as expected.
> > 
> > The other change that works
> > gnuplot/bin/wgnuplot.exe
> > gnuplot/bin/wgnuplot_pipes.exe
> > gnuplot/bin/gnuplot.exe
> >        :
> > gnuplot/share/PostScript/(8859-1.ps etc.)
> > gnuplot/share/share/js/(canvasmath.js etc.)
> > gnuplot/share/lua/share/lua/(gnuplot-tikz.lua etc.)
> > gnuplot/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> > 
> > The second is standard unixy directory constitution.
> > In this case, everything works correctly.
> 
> Grepping for "bin", here seems to be the reason:
> 
> winmain.c, line 316 (in function main() / WinMain()):
> 
> 	if (_fstrlen(szModuleName) >= 5 && 
> _fstrnicmp(&szModuleName[_fstrlen(szModuleName)-5], "\\bin\\", 5) == 0)
> 	{
> 		int len = _fstrlen(szModuleName)-4;
> 		szPackageDir = (LPSTR)farmalloc(len+1);
> 		CheckMemory(szPackageDir);
> 		_fstrncpy(szPackageDir, szModuleName, len);
> 		szPackageDir[len] = '\0';
> 	}
> 	else
> 		szPackageDir = szModuleName;
> 
> So this "unixish" behaviour is intentional, see ChangeLog:
> 
> 2008-10-11  Michael Goffioul  <mic...@gm...>
> 
> * src/win/winmain.h src/win/winmain.c (WinMain): Compute new variable
> szPackageDir from szModuleName, stripping possible "\bin\" at the end.
> 
> * term/post.trm (PS_open_prologue_file): Use szPackageDir instead of
> szModuleName.
> 
> 
> => I will rename "bin" directory in gp44rc1win32.zip to "binary".
Oh!  Great!

I will follow your way.

This should be noted in the case gnuplot used in "bin" directory in octave etc. 

I have been have a problem that I cannot get ps graphics if gnuplot installed in 'bin' directory of
octave.   

I have moved 'share' directory move to bin/../share, it worked!!


However, in the case above, the name of share/PostScript seem to not be appropriate because the
contents in share/PostScript is for gnuplot but not for PostScript.  This will give confusion. 

In cygwin (perhaps unix also) , share/gnuplot/x.x/Postscript (x.x is version number e.g, 4.5).

I would like to make structure of the directory 'share' being the same as that in unix ( and cygwin). 
That makes things simple, I think.   

Regards

Tatsuro 

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