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)

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On 03/30/15 17:38, sfeam wrote:
> 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
>

'unrecognized option' suggests it was still parsing when,indeedn, it 
should have been. Where is the end of line that it failed to find?

I don't see  what you are hoping to catch, or what the root cause of 
this bug was.


Peter.