Re: new bug in gplt_x11.c

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

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:53:16 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >
> > Following recent changes, gplt_x11.c will not compile using gcc
> > 4.4.3:
> >
> > gplt_x11.c: In function 'preset':
> > gplt_x11.c:5025: error: incompatible types when assigning to type
> > 'char[256]' from type 'void *'
> >
> > The offending line is
> >
> >   buffer = NULL;
> >
> > 'buffer' having been previously declared as of type char[256].
>
> Ugh. You're right.
> Fortunately it's not too late to fix this in the 4.4.0 source.
>
> > The bad line is reached if XAPPLRESDIR is defined neither in the
> > environment nor in the gnuplot source itself, I think.
>
> But how did you trigger this?
> So far as I can see, XAPPLRESDIR is defined in the Makefile regardless
> of whether its value is NULL.
> Are you looking at 4.4 or 4.5?

4.5 -- and sorry, it was my bad, I hadn't updated Makefile.in.
After doing that the default was picked up and the error was
not triggered.

Allin Cottrell