On Apr 18, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Ingo Thies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on Tiger/PPC I have always used an independent Gnuplot build since I
> want
> to use the newest CVS version. However, after switching to Leopard/
> Intel
> the GD library from fink seems to be no longer available to external
> installations. I always get the message that PNG is an inknown or
> ambiguous terminal. However, the Fink version of Gnuplot works fine.
>
> What is the reason for this ugly behaviour of Leopard?
>
> I also tried to configure the CVS version with --with-gd=DIR and
> DIR=/sw/lib, as suggested somewhere in the web, but with no effect.
>
> Does anyone know a workaround, or will I have to install libgd
> independently? If so, could anyone please give me a step-by-step
> instruction how to do this (I never installed a library
> independently)?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ingo
Ingo,
I also prefer to run the CVS gnuplot, and am using Fink to build and
install on Leopard (Intel).
Below is a short script demonstrating what I do
export GP=gnuplot-4.3.0
cp -r gnuplot $GP
cd $GP
./prepare
cd ..
tar cvzf $GP.tar.gz GP
md5 $gp.tar.gz
echo "(1) Add md5 to GPinfo"
sudo cp GP.tar.gz /sw/src/.
sudo vi "/sw/fink/10.5/local/main/finkinfo/sci/gnuplot-dev.info"
sudo fink rebuild gnuplot
sudo fink reinstall gnuplot
I called the new info and patch files gnuplot-dev.info and gnuplot-
dev.patch.
The info file is a slight modification of the one that Fink was using.
I changed the lines below
Version: 4.3.0
Revision: 2
...
Source-MD5: 6c5deabd12cf8904c4cb9b4712438601
PatchFile: %{Ni}-dev.patch
The "Source-MD5" line may be changed each time your build/install or
may choose to skip that and tell fink to use the sources that are
present even though the MD5 does not match (Fink will ask if the MD5
does not match).
I have not needed to change the patch file, but did rename it so that
any possible changes upstream would not effect my local install.
I have not encountered any problems with gdlib.
Ben
p.s. I began doing this more than a year ago (prior to the 4.2.4
release) Thus my gnuplot-dev.info may no longer to a duplicate of
Fink's. If you'd like copy of my info file, I can provide it.
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