Re: [PATCH] Unit tests don't use the local user's .gnuplot file

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

On Saturday, 20 October 2012, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> On 20.10.2012 19:20, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 
> > I like the idea of providing a way to suppress reading ~/.gnuplot.
> 
> Well, one could always just brush the file under the carpet, e.g.:
> 
> 	env HOME=/some/where/else gnuplot
> 
> Look, Ma --- no need for a special option!

That's true for the case of running "make check" or 
gnuplot 'all.dem'.  It's not necessarily true for running one's own
scripts since they may explicitly load files relative to $HOME.
 
> >> This is done primarily so that unit tests test the stock configuration

 
> > For simple doesn't-crash sanity checks after applying a patch,
> > I usually add any relevant options to ~/.gnuplot and run
> > "make check".
> 
> I'm afraid that achieves rather a lot less than it's meant to.  Settings 
> from ~/.gnuplot don't survive the first "reset" (at the end of simple.dem).

Some do, some don't.  But I take your point.