Re: Building with Qt depends on pkg-config, Qt 5 term doesn't work on OS X

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 09:24:37 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> After applying your first patch only the first gnuplot run took half a
>>> minute to start. Subsequent runs take 4 seconds at most which is
>>> totally acceptable.
>>
>> OK, I have applied that first patch for #ifdef Q_OS_MAC only.
>
> Thank you, it works fine now. But is it on purpose that every mac/qt5
> user will now get the following printed?
>
> Terminal type set to 'qt'
> gnuplot> plot cos(x)
> Error: short read from gnuplot_qt socket while expecting font metrics
> Error: short read from gnuplot_qt socket while expecting font metrics
> gnuplot>

Yes, because users of qt5 on Macs are a big nuisance and deserve to 
be punished. Not.

What do you think? Maybe it has to do with debugging? If, perchance, 
that might be needed ;-)

Allin Cottrell