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

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>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.
>

Oh, I see.

>>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:
>

That is what I had in mind.

>#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.
>

Too bad.  It's nice to have gnuplot not act too differently depending 
upon platform.

Dan