Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

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

On Tuesday, 04 July 2017 17:26:11 Petr Mikulik wrote:
>  	Hello,
> 
> I have troubles compiling rc2 on Linux (OpenSUSE 42.2, and some Ubuntu) - 
> linking fails.
> 
> It is this problem:
>      https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/support-requests/196/
> 
> The workaround
>      configure --with-X11
> described above does not help, while
>      TERMLIBS="-lX11" ./configure
> let me gnuplot compile.
> 
> Can this be fixed?

   No.  It is a bug in the configuration files distributed for libwxgtk.

> ***
> 
> Further, I can see that
>  	set term qt; test
> does not pass the test of character width (testing rectangle is too narrow), 
> while x11 and wxt pass well.

  I don't see this problem here.
  Is it maybe an issue with the font?

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> 
> Those two dummy terminals show 90123456789 instead of 0123...90123...9 in the 
> character width test:
>  	set term dumb; test
>  	set term caca; test

  The horizontal arrow is being drawn on top of test string 01234567890123456789
  Probably the arrows should be smaller, or drawn in back of the text

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> 
> Is caca still experimental?
> It's just fun, but it's nice, mouseable and it seems to work, so I propose to 
> have it not experimental.

  Good point.
  Also I have just noticed that the caca terminal documentation
  is not always included in user manual.

> 
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> 
> Greetings,
>    Petr