* gnuplot dollar sign and command line arguments [not found] <1759739558.1598055.1516390377125.ref@mail.yahoo.com> @ 2018-01-19 19:33 ` George Prekas via cygwin 2018-04-09 17:50 ` Achim Gratz 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: George Prekas via cygwin @ 2018-01-19 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin I noticed that gnuplot is configured with the flag --enable-backwards-compatibility in file gnuplot-5.2.2-1.cygport downloaded from http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/cygwin/x86/release/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.2.2-1-src.tar.xz. This flag causes the following test case to behave differently under Cygwin and Ubuntu: ubuntu$ echo 'print "$0"' > x ubuntu$ gnuplot -c x 1 $0 cygwin$ echo 'print "$0"' > x cygwin$ gnuplot -c x 1 1 More specifically the flag --enable-backwards-compatibility enables the backward compatible expansion of dollar sign expressions to command line arguments in gnuplot source files. Is there any specific reason that Cygwin chooses to enable this flag? Regards, George Prekas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: gnuplot dollar sign and command line arguments 2018-01-19 19:33 ` gnuplot dollar sign and command line arguments George Prekas via cygwin @ 2018-04-09 17:50 ` Achim Gratz 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Achim Gratz @ 2018-04-09 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin George Prekas via cygwin writes: > More specifically the flag --enable-backwards-compatibility enables > the backward compatible expansion of dollar sign expressions to > command line arguments in gnuplot source files. Is there any specific > reason that Cygwin chooses to enable this flag? To be backwards compatible to existing gnuplot scripts, perhaps? This flag was in fact set by the previous maintainer and I've not heard any good reason why I should change it. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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