Re: fio2gnuplot issue

[Saeed <ionictea@gmail.com>]

Thanks!  I suspected it must've been something with gnuplot because it 
seems to work with Ubuntu 15.xx (running Gnuplot 4.xx) and breaks with 
Ubuntu 16.xxx (running Gnuplot 5.xx).

I tried contacting Erwan for an answer on a possible update but gotten 
no response.

On 2016-07-14 05:22:55 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler said:

>> 
>> On 2016-07-05 21:52:47 +0000, Saeed Tea said:
>> 
>>> I'm trying generate graphs with logs create by fio using fio2gnu and keep
>>> getting this error when generating graphs for iops or bandwidth:
>>> 
>>> 1 files Selected with pattern '*_iops.log'
>>> |-> 4k.results_iops.log
>>> 
>>> Running gnuplot Rendering
>>> "/usr/share/fio//math.gpm", line 25: no datablock named $1
>>> 
>>> "/usr/share/fio//graph2D.gpm", line 25: no datablock named $1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rendering traces are available in the current directory
>>> 
>>> Checking the directory listing only shows this file:
>>> 
>>> $3.png
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something in fio profile??  Here's a snippet:
> 
> This happens because you have gnuplot 5 and it dropped support for the
> $1 way of passing arguments on the command line (see
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/31815067/4513656 ). To get around this both
> the .gpm and and fio2gnuplot would have to be rewritten to use a
> different means of passing parameters in. I'm not sure any method
> beyond using environment variables would work for both old and new
> versions of gnuplot...
> 
> CC'ing the original author of fio2gnuplot for comment.