Re: AquaTerm (all solved)

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

Hi Ethan,

The new configure script works correctly (at least on my ARM-based Mac
running masOS 15.2 Sequioa); thank you.

As for "-g": As long as it's a deliberate choice, I have no problem with
it. (I thought this flag could interfere with optimization, but I realize
now that this is not true; thus, the only difference is the size of the
executable.)

Erik

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote:

> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 08:59:41 PST Erik Luijten wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I apologize for the clutter on this mailing list, but to save others
> work,
> > I wanted to let you know that all AquaTerm issues listed in my email from
> > yesterday have been resolved:
> >
> > 1. Thanks to the MacPorts project, I figured out what patches are needed
> to
> > compile AquaTerm 1.1.1 on a current version of macOS.
> >
> > 2. Moreover, Ethan, I found out what needs to be changed in the Gnuplot
> > configure script. Line 10668 needs to read:
> >
> > CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ObjC"; LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -framework Foundation
> -framework
> > AquaTerm -F/Library/Frameworks"
> >
> > (the missing -F flag causes subsequent tests to go wrong)
>
> This is getting deep into the autoconf/packaging weeds.
>
> <begin weedy section>
> The ./configure file is not a primary source;  it is produced by running
> various
> autoconf tools  (aclocal autoheader automake m4 ...) using the master
> template
> file configure.ac and the scripts in the subdirectory .../m4/
> If you are starting from the files in the git repository (i.e. not from a
> packaged tarball) this is done by running the script named "prepare"
> which does all this magic and produces the ./configure script.
>
> I didn't write that prepare script and have only a superficial
> understanding of
> what all it is doing.  I can see that there is script in the m4 directory
> .../m4/apple.m4 that is supposed to set the appropriate flags for building
> on a Mac.
> <end weedy section>
>
> I can tweak it, but I'll be working blind since I don't have a Mac to test
> it on.
> Please try the attached configure script (for 6.0.2) generated after
> modifying
> apple.m4
>
> >
> > 3. I need to create an ARM package for AquaTerm and then I will provide
> new
> > packages on my Wiki page. Please allow a few days for me to finish this.
> >
> > Lastly, on a side note: I noticed that gnuplot on my machine always
> builds
> > with "-g -O2"; is this default on purpose? ("-g" seems undesirable for
> > production builds)
>
> Why undesirable?
> The advantage is that it allows people to provide more information in a
> bug report.
> As in "here's a backtrace I got for the segfault I'm reporting".
> Is there a disadvantage?
>
>     Ethan