Re: test-build tarball for gnuplot 5.0.7

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 14 August 2017 at 18:24, sfeam via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> On Monday, 14 August 2017 19:22:44 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> I note that I can build gnuplot 5.3 on cygwin 32 and 64 bit.
>
> The patch below was applied to 5.2/5.3 in January 2016 to address this issue.
> It seemed at the time that this was not needed for 5.0 and indeed
> there have been 4 releases 5.0.3 5.0.4 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 since then without it.

It could be that cygwin upgraded GTK in the meantime and none of the
users of gnuplot 5.0 actually tested it against GTK 3. It's just
speculation though, I didn't run any tests.

I don't see why that patch would be any less useful for 5.0 than it is for 5.2.

Mojca