Re: Testing version of gnuplot 6.0.2

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:26:48 PST ASSI wrote:

> Ethan A Merritt writes:
> > I have placed a test package for release 6.0.2 in the "testing" folder on SourceForge
> >
> > The bug tracker has been pretty quiet lately so I hope most of the issues in the 6.0
> > releases have been reported and now are fixed in 6.0.2.
> >w
> > Please report any build problems or other issues you find with the test package.
> > If no problems arise I plan to use the same source files for a release announcement
> > in a couple of weeks.
> 
> With the newest TeXLive (20240312 on Cygwin) gnuplot documentation can no
> longer be created since
> 
>     \usepackage{ucs}
>     \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> 
> produces errors in internal TeX packages down the line.  I have not
> found an invocation that circumvents this problem yet…

Yes, I found that also. I reported it upstream.
I believe the error in is the utf8x module but I haven't been able to figure
out what changed from TeXLive2023 (which does work).

Simplest work-around is to replace
	PDFLATEX = pdflatex
with
	PDFLATEX=luatex
in the .../docs/Makefile

or do the same in the environment as part of the configuration process.

bash$     PDFLATEX=luatex ./configure

  Ethan
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
> 


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Ethan A Merritt
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington, Seattle