Re: gnuplot 5.0.1 build error: use of undeclared identifier 'GE_replot'

[Brian W. <bri...@gm...>]

> On Aug 3, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, 03 August, 2015 12:40:22 Brian Weitzner wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am trying to build gunplot on a Mac via macports and I get the following error:
> > 
> > :info:build In file included from term.c:1194:
> > :info:build In file included from ./term.h:254:
> > :info:build ../term/caca.trm:2514:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'process_event' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > :info:build                 process_event(GE_replot, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
> > :info:build                 ^
> > :info:build ../term/caca.trm:2514:17: error: use of undeclared identifier 'GE_replot'
> > :info:build                 process_event(GE_replot, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
> > :info:build                               ^
> > 
> > Has this issue been encountered and/or resolved by anyone else? Any help or information is appreciated.
>  
> I don't know why it is failing, but the simplest fix is to
> disable the caca terminal
>  
>   ./configure --without-caca
>  
> It's a "just-for-fun" option that you don't need for anything serious.
> I am somewhat surprised that your machine even has libcaca installed 
> to begin with.
>  
> 	Ethan


For reasons unknown, libcaca is listed as a dependency by MacPorts, so everyone who gets gnuplot that way has libcaca.

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Brian D. Weitzner
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