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#2859 Fails to build with lua 5.5

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Updated: 1 day ago

Created: 3 days ago

Creator: Orion Poplawski

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Fedora rawhide has updated to lua 5.5. gnuplot fails to build with:

Making all in docs
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/orion/fedora/gnuplot/gnuplot-6.0.3-build/gnuplot-6.0.3/minimal/docs'
lua ../../term/lua/gnuplot-tikz.lua termhelp > gnuplot-tikz.help
lua: ../../term/lua/gnuplot-tikz.lua:2546: attempt to assign to const variable 'w'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1058: gnuplot-tikz.help] Error 1

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Ethan Merritt - 3 days ago

I don't have lua 5.5 yet, so this patch is just a guess based on the "changes" section of the README on their web site. Could you please try it?

possible_lua_fix.patch

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Orion Poplawski - 2 days ago

That appears to have done the trick. Thanks!

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Ethan Merritt - 1 day ago

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