Recent changes to 2859: Fails to build with lua 5.5

#2859 Fails to build with lua 5.5

Ethan Merritt — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:45:06 -0000

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#2859 Fails to build with lua 5.5

Orion Poplawski — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:12:28 -0000

That appears to have done the trick. Thanks!

#2859 Fails to build with lua 5.5

Ethan Merritt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:07:04 -0000

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?

Fails to build with lua 5.5

Orion Poplawski — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:00:54 -0000

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

Fails to build with lua 5.5

Orion Poplawski — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:00:54 -0000

Ticket 2859 has been modified: Fails to build with lua 5.5
Edited By: Ethan Merritt (sfeam)
Status updated: 'open' => 'pending-fixed'