Hi Ed,

Clearly I haven’t been going about this in the most efficient way, in that 
case. Thank you for your quick reply and clarification.

Kind regards,

Mark



> On 18 Jul 2024, at 23:54, Ed . <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I can't directly answer your question (I know a little about Homebrew, 
> nothing about MacPorts), but I can tell you that as of PDL 2.086 and PGPLOT 
> 2.29, there is no PGPLOT support code in PDL; the PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT* 
> modules are within the PGPLOT distribution.
> 
> Therefore, there is no reason for you to get PGPLOT installed first, before 
> you install PDL (assuming you are going for 2.086+, and why wouldn't you).
> 
> Best regards,
> Ed
> From: Mark Sargent (ISSI) <[email protected]>
> Sent: 18 July 2024 9:47 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Pdl-general] MacPorts installation of pdl with externally compiled 
> pgplot (v5.3.1)
>  
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to install pdl via MacPorts on an M2 MacBook Air running macOS 
> Sonoma 14.5. A simple install via 'sudo port install p5.34-pdl’ fails when 
> the package installer gets to p5.34-pgplot, likely due to this issue: 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57726
> 
> On my previous two laptops I could overcome this by compiling pgplot 
> separately with gcc7 and then installing pdl:
> sudo port install gcc7
> sudo port install pgplot +gcc7 \ [note: this is pgplot v5.2.2]
> sudo port install p5.28-pdl +gd +proj \ [note: the +opengl option would fail]
> 
> On my new laptop this approach hasn’t worked as the installation of gcc7 via 
> MacPorts is no longer successful. I’ve thus manually installed pgplot v5.3.1 
> as described here: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/mailman/message/37197019/ . 
> pgdemo1 to pgdemo17 all work.
> 
> How can I now get MacPorts to use this version of pgplot (installed under 
> /usr/local/pgplot/) when building pdl, rather than its default dependency 
> (v5.2.2)?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Mark

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