Re: mp term missing in gnuplot 6.0?

[Cottrell, A. <cot...@wf...>]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM Ethan Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 05:57:00 PDT Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I just built gnuplot 6.0 on Linux, passing --with-metapost to
> > configure. In the output from configure I see "metapost : yes", but
> > on running the program after "make install" there's no mp terminal
> > available:
> >
> > gnuplot> set term mp
> >
> > Terminal type is now 'unknown'
>
> Stupid typo in term.h
> #ifdef WITH_METAPOST  should be #ifdef HAVE_METAPOST
>
> Fixed now

Thanks, Ethan. I was beginning to think that mp term might not just be
deprecated but actually removed altogether in 6.0. Which would have
meant there was a bug of sorts in the configure script, since it says
to pass --with-metapost if you want mp term.

Allin Cottrell