Re: Two minor patches

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

sfeam <sf...@us...> writes:

>> Pinging this thread before I forget about it. Can we please merge the
>> patch?
>>
>> On systems where X11 is available, $LIBRARIES_FOR_X will contain the
>> X11 link flags, so we'll link in the appropriate library, and things
>> will work.
>
> I do not think this is correct. What about systems where X is
> "available" but is not used for wxt? I think that is true for both OSX
> and Windows. My recollection is that putting -LX11 in the build flags
> broke OSX.

I'l like to get confirmation from somebody who actually uses OSX.


> I still think this is a wxgtk configuration error and not something
> that gnuplot can fix on its own.

Maybe. But the current state of affairs is that on Debian (and probably
every other linux distro) a simple

  ./prepare; ./configure; make

sequence fails. It doesn't matter whose bug this is we should try to
work around it.