Package: kst Version: 1.7.0-1 kst is unable to read modern-format Dirfile databases. Dirfile databases are read via the GetData library. The current version of kst (1.7.0) uses an internal version of GetData which has become obsolete. This internal version of GetData is only able to handle dirfiles conforming to Version 4 (or earlier) of the Dirfile Standards (c. October 2006). The latest version of the Dirfile Standards is Version 7, released in October 2009.
This problem has been fixed upstream. The GetData library is now a stand-alone project: http://getdata.sourceforge.net/ Starting with version 1.8, kst will use the external library, in preference to its obsolete internal version, if the modern GetData library is found at ./configure time. To fix this bug, then, it is required to: * package and install the stand-alone GetData from the above mentioned project * upgrade to kst-1.8.x so, this is something to keep in mind the next time kst package is upgraded. (NB: the upcoming kst 2.x series contains no internal GetData library and requires the external library to be able to read Dirfile data.) For testing purposes, a (very trivial) modern Dirfile database can be created by creating a file called format containing the following two lines: /ENDIAN big format RAW UINT8 1 kst-1.7.0-1 fails to read this dirfile when invoked as: $ kst -y format <directory-containing-format> (the error in the Kst Debug Dialog is: "Failed to load file '<directory-containing-format>'".) However, a locally-compiled version of kst 1.8.0 using the external GetData library (version 0.6.0) succeeds in reading the dirfile using the above invocation (resulting in a plot of the ASCII codes of the characters in the file "format"). -- D. V. Wiebe [email protected] http://getdata.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
