Re: some warnings on mac

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:08, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 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?

> gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)

>> 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!

If I only knew what to report ... (I can send the file.)

>> /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?

No. It is printed out during compilation of gnuplot (configured with
--without-bitmap-terminals --with-cwdrc --without-tutorial
--disable-wxwidgets --without-latex). But I need to double-check.

Mojca

PS: I tried to compile gnuplot with external (self-compiled) readline
and it kept crashing, but I had other problems as well, so maybe there
were other reasons.