Re: some warnings on mac

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I'm sending a copy of some errors that get reported when I try to
> compile gnuplot ...

Errors from what version of which compiler?

> 
> In file included from term.h:349,
>                  from term.c:1399:
> ../term/post.trm: In function ‘PS_graphics’:
> ../term/post.trm:1819: warning: format not a string literal and no
> format arguments
> 
> This comes from
>     static char GPFAR psg1[] = "0 setgray\nnewpath\n";
>     fprintf(gppsfile, psg1);

[\me scratches head] Sure looks like a string literal to me.

 
> util.c:524:1: warning: "sprintf" redefined
> In file included from /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stdio.h:443,
>                  from stdfn.h:48,
>                  from util.h:41,
>                  from util.c:37:

That seems to be an error in stdio.h as provided by SDK.
Report it to Apple!


> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/secure/_stdio.h:46:1:
> warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> wxterminal/gp_cairo.c: In function ‘gp_cairo_convert’:
> wxterminal/gp_cairo.c:678: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’,
> but argument 5 has type ‘gsize’
> wxterminal/gp_cairo.c:678: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’,
> but argument 6 has type ‘size_t’
> gplt_x11.c: In function ‘exec_cmd’:
> gplt_x11.c:2892: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> gplt_x11.c:2897: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> gplt_x11.c:2902: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> gplt_x11.c:2907: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments

Those messages are garbage. Ignore them.

> In gnuplot-comint-start-function:
> gnuplot.el:1838:18:Warning: `make-variable-buffer-local' should be called at
>     toplevel
> 
> In gnuplot-mode:
> gnuplot.el:2518:41:Warning: `make-variable-buffer-local' should be called at
>     toplevel

I have no idea what this means, or even who is printing the error.
Is that a message from emacs?

 
> Some more are related to AquaTerm, but that's an issue on its own.
> 
> Mojca
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