[Texmacs-dev] Re: [TeXmacs] QT texmacs (mac os X version) on the texmacs website / fink

[Martin Costabel]

On 29/10/10 12:45 PM, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>
> On 29 oct. 10, at 12:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
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> > 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