Kingsley, Thanks for the bugreport!
On 8 March 2009 at 17:34, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: | | First of all, thanks for maintaining Debian's | gretl package. | | I think it's fantastic. | | The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to | notice that boxplots didn't work with version | 4.0.0-5 of gnuplot. Isn't that ancient version? | View->graph specified vars->Boxplots... (and using | criteria like those used in the help window) | resulted in the following error | | gnuplot> plot '-' using 1:3:2:5:4 w candlesticks lt 2 lw 2 notitle whiskerbars 0.5, '-' using 1:2:2:2:2 w candlesticks lt -1 notitle, '-' using 1:2 w points pt 1 notitle | ^ | "/home/kingsley/.gretl/gpttmp.VdHCXD", line 21: ';' expected | | ' | | However, I'm happy to report that upgrading | gnuplot to version 4.2.4-4 solved the problem. | | My cursory search of gnuplot bugs related to box | plots found no specific fix, so unfortunately, | this bug report won't say the exact version of | gnuplot that fixed it. | | I suppose, if you're so inclined, you could make | gretl depend on version 4.2.4-4 or later of | gnuplot. Allin, would you know anything about this? Looking at INSTALL and configure.ac suggests that gretl only want gnuplot but not a particular version. A quick glance at http://packages.debian.org/gnuplot that one must try really hard to get an older gnuplot. Also, strictly speaking, gnuplot is just a Recommends: I can't quite convince myself whether this is a user error of upgrading parts of the system but not others. In any case, I'll put a simple versioned Depends of the type gnuplot (>= 4.2) into the metadata for Debian's gretl to precent use with version 4.0. Thanks, Dirk | Thanks, | Kingsley | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: lenny/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: i386 (i686) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | | Versions of packages gretl depends on: | ii gretl-common 1.7.9-2 The GNU Regression, Econometric & | ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit | ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra | ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-1.5 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 | ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries | ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra | ii libfftw3-3 3.1.2-3 library for computing Fast Fourier | ii libgfortran3 4.3.3-2 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap | ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines | ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library | ii libgretl1 1.8.0-2 The GNU Regression, Econometric & | ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface | ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-0.4 library of linear algebra routines | ii libmpfr1ldbl 2.3.1.dfsg.1-2 multiple precision floating-point | ii libncurses5 5.6+20080713-1 shared libraries for terminal hand | ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio | ii libreadline5 5.2-1 GNU readline and history libraries | ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library | ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime | | Versions of packages gretl recommends: | ii gnuplot 4.2.4-4 A command-line driven interactive | ii gretl-data 1.7.9-2 The GNU Regression, Econometric & | ii gretl-doc 1.8.0-2 The GNU Regression, Econometric & | | gretl suggests no packages. | | -- no debconf information | | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
