Re: inconsistency between 4.4-cvs and 4.5 for default install directory of x11 resources (Gnuplot)

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

Hello

--- Ethan Merrittwrote:

> On Friday 19 February 2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > 
> > For 4.4-cvs, the file 'Gnuplot' is installed to /etc/X11/app-defaults, however for 4.5, it is
> > installed to /usr/local/etc/X11/app-defaults/gnuplot/4.5.
> 
> Please help me out here, people!
> 
> It seems that no matter where the X11 resources file is installed,
> there are complaints.
> 
> Perhaps we should not install it at all unless the new explicit 
> configuration option is given?
> 
> Since it seems very few people understand how this file is used,
> perhaps it should be left to packagers who can select the appropriate
> installation directory for their particular system configuration?




> > As the default prefix is /usr/local so that the style of 4.5 is preferred, I think.
> 
> The file is used by the x11 server, which is almost certainly
> expecting to look in the root file system, not in ${prefix}/...
> Furthermore the source for gplt_x11.c contains a lot of messy
> code giving explicit non-default directories for this file in
> conditional code for OS2, VMS, and possibly other operating systems.
> These are probably all out of date.   On top of that, at some point
> some linux distros changed the default name of the user's _own_
> resources file from ~/.Xdefaults to ~/.Xresources.  So right now
> it is very hard to explain to people where to put the contents
> of the Gnuplot.app-defaults file.
> 
> I don't know what is the best thing to do with the file during
> installation. Help!!!

I understand your situation. 
In the case of the uploaded 4.4-cvs version of cygwin binary, I used
--with-x-app-defaultdir=/usr/local/etc/X11/app-defaults/gnuplot/4.4 to keep the consistency with that
was happened 4.5.

I will do see the previous threads and see the role of the x11 resource file and search the
appropriate location for the cygwin.  The binary package of cygwin has been assumed that all files are
located under /usr/local.  Therefore the root location of the x11 resource file is required, the
directory structure of the package is be modified and the explanation of install procedure is be also
changed.

Hi Petr, 
do you have any information or comments on this matter on cygwin?
 
Regards

Tatsuro 

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