Re: gnuplot-4.0.0 on SunOS 4

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Lars Hecking wrote:

>  This is mainly an exercise to test whether gnuplot 4 compiles with K&R
>  compilers - it should, with ansi2knr, but it doesn't. Any ideas?
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/gnuplot-4.0.0/src'
> cc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../term -I../term -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\" -DX11_DRIVER_DIR=\"/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0\" -DCONTACT=\"gnu...@li...\" -DHELPFILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot.gih\" -I/usr/include/X11  `if test -f ./axis.c; then echo ./axis.c; else echo axis.c; fi` | sed 's/^# \([0-9]\)/#line \1/' | ./ansi2knr > axis_.c || rm -f axis_.c
> ./axis.h: 521: bad formal: \
> 
> ./axis.h: 576: bad formal: \

Hmmm... looks like that preprocessor can't cope with \ continuation in the
middle of a macro definition's argument list.   A look into _axis.c might 
tell, if it's not removed immediately.

> source='axis_.c' object='axis_.o' libtool=no \
> depfile='.deps/axis_.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/axis_.TPo' \
> depmode=none /usr/local/gnu/bin/bash ../depcomp \
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../term -I../term -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\" -DX11_DRIVER_DIR=\"/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0\" -DCONTACT=\"gnu...@li...\" -DHELPFILE=\"/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot.gih\" -I/usr/include/X11   -g -c `test -f 'axis_.c' || echo './'`axis_.c
> "./axis.c", line 58: operands of = have incompatible types
> "./axis.c", line 58: operands of = have incompatible types
> "./axis.c", line 58: illegal initialization
> "./axis.c", line 58: operands of = have incompatible types
> "./axis.c", line 58: illegal initialization
> "./axis.c", line 58: too many initializers
> "./axis.c", line 58: too many initializers
[...]

Same here: I'll need a copy of _axis.c to see what's wrong here.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.