Re: Tarball for 4.6.0 release is available on SourceForge

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Sunday, 11 March 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 05:50, sfeam (Ethan Merritt)  wrote:
> > I have uploaded a tarball for the 4.6.0 release to SourceForge,
> > along with the planned release announcement and a PDF copy of the
> > User Manual.  These should propagate to mirrors by tomorrow.
> >
> > You are welcome to test it now, and let me know if you encounter
> > any problems.
> 
> I finally managed to compile Qt after patching gnuplot configuration a
> bit. Here's a simple test that segfaults:
> 
> Terminal type set to 'aqua'
> gnuplot> set term wxt
> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
> Options are '0'
> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
> gnuplot> set term qt
> Terminal type set to 'qt'
>          The qt terminal cannot be used in a wxt session
> 
> gnuplot> exit
> Segmentation fault: 11
> 
> Mojca

See above error message. If you mix qt and wxt in a single
session, the program segfaults. The program tries to prevent
this by refusing to execute the "set term" command in such a
case.  On linux this is sufficient to return you to a normal
prompt and the current terminal type "unknown".  Perhaps
adding "aqua" to the mix makes the problem one notch worse?
I don't know.  Anyhow - for the foreseeable future the answer
is "don't do that".  This is already listed as a known
limitation in the Release Notes, by the way.

	cheers,

		Ethan