5.0-rc3 on OpenBSD 5.6: mostly ok, but a few glitches

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

I've just built 5.0-rc3 from the sourceforge tarball on OpenBSD 5.6
(amd64).  There were minor glitches (see below), but overall -r3c seems
to be in good shape (lots of great new features!), and almost ready for
release.

The terminals I normally use (x11 and ps) work fine in my limited tests
so far, as do pbm and pdfcairo.

Glitches:

Glitch 1: INSTALL refers to the configure option  --enable-bitmap-terminals
but the configure script actually wants  -with-bitmap-terminals  (and
complains about  --enable-bitmap-terminals  being unrecognized).

Glitch 2. The configure script reports some problems with the 'missing'
script:

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Script started on Sat Dec  6 19:39:01 2014
% uname -a
OpenBSD cobalt.astro.indiana.edu 5.6 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64
% /usr/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% /usr/bin/g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% gmake --version
GNU Make 4.0
Built for x86_64-unknown-openbsd5.6
Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
% ./configure --prefix /usr/local/ --disable-history-file --with-readline=gnu --with-bitmap-terminals --without-pdf --without-lua --with-qt CC=/usr/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/bin/g++ LIBS=-lm
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/usr/local/src/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.rc3/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/usr/local/src/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.rc3/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... gawk
[[...]]
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The other glitches I found were (I suspect) OpenBSD-specific.  Notably,
the wxt terminal compiled and linked ok, but core-dumps at the first
'plot' command -- here's a stack traceback:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00001e14021cf83a in kill () at <stdin>:2
#1  0x00001e1402231889 in abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:53
#2  0x00001e1454e68205 in _rthread_mutex_lock (mutexp=0x1e13fcb446d0, 
    trywait=0, abstime=0x0) at /usr/src/lib/librthread/rthread_sync.c:127
#3  0x00001e13d696eba9 in wxMutexInternal::Lock ()
   from /usr/local/lib/libwx_base.so.3.0
#4  0x00001e11ad34ae2a in wxt_init () at wxterminal/wxt_gui.cpp:1841
#5  0x00001e11ad30dafa in term_initialise () at term.c:486
#6  0x00001e11ad281026 in do_plot (plots=0x1e141c44fc00, pcount=1)
    at graphics.c:523
#7  0x00001e11ad2a631b in plotrequest () at plot2d.c:3356
#8  0x00001e11ad2543b0 in do_line () at command.c:614
#9  0x00001e11ad255023 in com_line () at command.c:321
#10 0x00001e11ad29e4bb in main (argc=0, argv=0x7f7fffff0c48) at plot.c:659
Current language:  auto; currently asm
(gdb)

  I haven't investigated this problem further.

ciao,

-- 
-- Jonathan Thornburg <jt...@as...>
   Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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