Re: plotutils-2.4.1

[Robert S. Maier]

Steve, the bug you've found in the compilation of the plotutils package
will be fixed in the next release (a bug fix release, to appear shortly).

C++ compilers are now more strict than they used to be.  That causes the
bug to reveal itself if `libplotter', the optional C++ class library, is
compiled.  I take it that's what you were doing.

At present, a workaround is to replace the offending line, 

    data->outstream->write(c, n);

which is line #43 in the file libplot/g_write.c, by

    data->outstream->write((char *)c, n);

Similar bugs in two other files, libplot/i_rle.c and libplot/n_write.c,
should be fixed too, in the same way.  In line #81 of libplot/i_rle.c, you
should change

      rle->outstream->write (&(rle->oblock[0]), rle->oblen);
to
      rle->outstream->write ((char *)&(rle->oblock[0]), rle->oblen);

Also, in the file libplot/n_write.c you should make the following changes
(old and fixed lines given, line numbers indicated):

211:    stream->write (linebuf, pos);
        stream->write ((char *)linebuf, pos);

256:    stream->write (rowbuf, bytecount);
        stream->write ((char *)rowbuf, bytecount);

369:    stream->write (linebuf, pos);
        stream->write ((char *)linebuf, pos);

395:    stream->write (linebuf, pos);
        stream->write ((char *)linebuf, pos);

517:    stream->write (linebuf, pos);
        stream->write ((char *)linebuf, pos);

545:    stream->write (rowbuf, 3 * width);
        stream->write ((char *)rowbuf, 3 * width);

If you have any further problems, please let me know.

--Rob

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