Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-babel-gnuplot broken today?

[Nick Dokos]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:

> Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nigel,
> > 
> > Org-mode gnuplot code blocks do make use of user variables [1] for
> > passing arguments into gnuplot.  I believe that this feature may only be
> > available in later versions of gnuplot.  I'm using gnuplot 4.4 locally
> > and I've had no problems using gnuplot from Org-mode code blocks which I
> > do most every day.
> > 
> 
> Did you try the example that Nigel posted? I think babel *is* broken.
> I tried a bisect and can verify that
> 
> commit f16c46c856afbd41b115a6a50306c0c002cdb333 is good 
> (release_7.01h-750-gf16c46c)
> commit b664510ec4811491e4611791c24591153abdf5f3 is bad  
> (release_7.01h-800-gb664510)
> 
> but the sequence is not bisectable: when it tries the middle commit
> 2699f4e9bc7695432cf6aaf1dd48e182b10c2847 (release_7.01h-775-g2699f4e)
> it gets "Symbol's value as variable is void: result-type" and it's
> not clear to me how to proceed with the bisection at that point. I tried
> skipping a bit, but the results were mixed at best.
> 
> So it looks to me as if something in those 50 commits broke it.
> 

One more data point: the result-type problem was resolved in the following

commit cea9fd742129f74b9ea38d7d9d74ca751271fce2 (release_7.01h-786-gcea9fd7)

and that one still shows the gnuplot problem. So it's down to 36 commits.

HTH,
Nick