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[Peter Rapčan <address@hidden>]

Thanks a lot Martin!!!

Peter.

On Nov 6, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> On 29/10/10 12:45 PM, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> 
>> On 29 oct. 10, at 12:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
> []
>>> Currently, Fink has texmacs-qt-1.0.7.3, which may be "fairly old". In
>>> any case, it is pretty buggy. I have a package description for 1.0.7.5
>>> that builds, creates an app bundle, and runs, but I haven't managed to
>>> run any of the plugins, so I didn't release this to Fink. Trying to
>>> build texmacs-qt-1.0.7.7 fails with the error
> [...]
>> 
>> I've commited a fix for this. Please if you experience problems report
>> them to the dev list or add them to the bug tracker so that we are aware
>> of them. I usually do not compile the X11 version often on Mac.
>> 
>> I will try to have TeXmacs/Qt.app ready for the weekend. I will post a
>> message when done.
> 
> I have now released Fink packages texmacs and texmacs-qt for version 
> 1.0.7.7. I used your patch from SVN for the qt version, so that it builds 
> now. I fixed some other bugs, so that at least the gnuplot plugin is now 
> working. I didn't look at many other plugins, and my personal quota for 
> texmacs-bugfixing is used up for the near future.
> 
> tm_gnuplot didn't work for two reasons:
> 
> The first reason is that "echo -n" in a /bin/sh script on MacOSX 10.5 or 
> later does not do what it is intended to do, it prints "-n". This is 
> something we discussed many years ago, and it was fixed in the texmacs 
> sources for a while by replacing #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash. It was unfixed 
> a little later, because linux users complained about non-existing 
> /bin/bash. This bug prevents the gnuplot plugin (and a couple of other 
> plugins) from working in both the X11 and the qt version.
> 
> The second bug only showed up in the qt version, because a Mac app does not 
> have a writable working directory. It would also show up in the command 
> line version if you start texmacs while your current directory is not 
> writable. The bug comes from the following lines in tm_gnuplot that have 
> been there, undetected, since at least 7 years:
> 
>> TEMPDIR=.
>> if [ -d $TEMPDIR ]
>> then
>>        :
>> else
>>        mkdir $TEMPDIR
>> fi
>> 
>> # defining temporary postscript file name
>> TEMP_PS_NAME=temp.eps
>> 
>> # standard initialization of GNUplot
>> init='reset~set terminal postscript eps enhanced ~set output 
>> "'$TEMP_DIR$TEMP_PS_NAME'"~set size 1,1~set autoscale~'
> 
> This code is..., well, I'll remain polite and don't comment. But someone 
> even copied it to the asymptote plugin!
> Anyway, the result is that gnuplot tries to run
> 
>  set output temp.eps
> 
> which does not work if you don't have a writable current directory.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
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