Re: set terminal postscript lw 1.5; set output 'ps_symbols.ps' causes an error (was Re: "ps_symbols.gpi", line 2: unrecognized option during make ps_symbols.ps)

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 30 March 2015 03:48:41 PM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
 
> The same phenomenon occurs on gnuplot on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
> gnuplot> set terminal postscript lw 1.5; set output 'ps_symbols.ps'
> Terminal type set to 'postscript'
> Options are 'landscape enhanced defaultplex \
>    leveldefault monochrome colortext \
>    dashlength 1.0 linewidth 1.5 butt noclip \
>    nobackground \
>    palfuncparam 2000,0.003 \
>    "Helvetica" 14  fontscale 1.0 '
>                                          ^
>          unrecognized option
> 
> gnuplot> 
> 
> The above seem to be platform independent.
> 
> Tatsuro

Sorry for the error. It is fixed now.

This is an example of a tyoe of programming error (failure to
check for end of command line) that is not exercised or caught
by running "make check".   Does anyone have suggestions about
how to add more stringent tests for debugging program changes?

	Ethan