Re: pre-release Testing tarball for version 5.0.5

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

On Thursday, 06 October 2016 11:16:15 PM Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:46 PM, sfeam <sf...@us...> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, 06 October 2016 05:45:19 PM Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:51 PM, sfeam <sf...@us...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > If no last-minute problems are found, I plan to release gnuplot 5.0.5
> > > > (version 5.0 patchlevel 5) in a week or so.
> > >
> > > ​On gnome/Wayland (Fedora 25 alpha)
> > > qt terminal crashes if I select "Export to PDF" or "Export to SVG":
> > >
> >
> > Definitely not something that's going to get fixed before release of 5.0.5
> > but if you open a bug tracker item we will try to deal with it.
> >
> > It would probably help to know what versions of qt, etc.
> >
> >
> ​I recompiled against qt-4.8.7 and it works fine (no crash).

If it's just the Qt version that is at issue, I will probably run into it myself
eventually.  But it may be a while before I have a system with Qt > 5.6

I suppose it would be informative if you could rule out wayland or the
gnome desktop.  Can you run the problematic gnuplot executable
under an alternative window manager (Xfce or LXDE  etc)?

	Ethan