Re: Qt terminal status / linux distro packages

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:28:09 am Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 08/22/2012 12:56 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if leaving out the X11 terminal is a good idea.  At least
> > one of the apps I know of will choose "x11" if the user doesn't set an
> > environment variable specifying an alternative gnuplot terminal.  So, if
> > the distro creators leave out x11 that will cause problems in at least
> > this case.
> 
> I should say that, as well, an app may want to have both x11 and qt, for 
> example.  A reasonable scenario is: run from the command line, x11, and 
> run from a UI, qt.
> 
> I've done some compilations here to check sizes:
> 
> gnuplot with x11 and qt: 3462231
> gnuplot with x11, no qt: 3067584
>
> So, qt adds 13%.  That is a fairly big addition if qt isn't used.  For 
> the qt user though it isn't a concern because of the added support.

If you care about total size you should include the respective outboard drivers:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1385735   72836   57408 1515979  1721cb gnuplot     # includes x11 + wxt + qt
  91517    4788   12704  109009   1a9d1 gnuplot_x11
 141992    2120     744  144856   235d8 gnuplot_qt

> gnuplot with qt, no x11: (I don't see a way to disable x11 terminal)

 ./configure --without-x