Re: How does ./configure interact with the demo directory?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:29 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> That's a good idea.  "All" should contain all.  However, then 'all.dem'
> will still not go all the way through.  

I don't so much care what "all.dem" contains specifically.
What I am concerned about is that "make check" should not fail
just because you disabled an option in ./configure.

> Is there some small modification 
> that can be made so that a syntax error does not cause gnuplot to stop
> when inside a file script?  

That is similar to an idea I had some time ago -
that when an option is disabled in ./configure there is still enough
residual code generated so that the syntax is legal:

#ifdef SOMETHING_FANCY
   lots of code
#else
   int_error(NO_CARET, "Your gnuplot does not support this option");
#endif

As I recall, the objection was raised that Windows does not provide
any reasonable place to print such a message.


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