non-critical problem...

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Rather than doing a full install, I built the latest tarball and decided 
to just test it within the "src" subdirectory.  I realize "you're not 
supposed to do that", but I ran across something a bit strange with the 
"gnuplot_x11" terminal.  Here is the message I get:

gnuplot> plot sin(x)
Expected X11 driver: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details

A couple things.  First, it might be nice if gnuplot would check the 
current active directory, i.e., the directory from which gnuplot is 
launched if it can't find gnuplot_x11 in the expected place.  For example,

Expected X11 driver: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11,
using ./gnuplot_x11 instead.

and if it isn't in the current working directory, state

Expected X11 driver: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11,
and none present in current working directory.
Exec failed: No such file or directory

If nobody likes that idea, fine.  However, the second thing is that 
after running gnuplot without "gnuplot_x11" present, the command line 
hung.  CNTRL-C broke from the hang, but afterward typing any keyboard 
keys no longer produces a response at the command line.  That may be a bug.

Dan