>and also using gnuplot from octave failed completely
I have a port that builds Octave 3.2.4 on OpenBSD 4.9, and runs gnuplot,
or at least sombrero works...
Email me if you want a copy.
It "features"
MODGCC4_LANGS += c++ fortran
...
CONFIGURE_ARGS= ${CONFIGURE_SHARED} \
--with-fftw \
--without-blas --without-lapack \
--without-hdf5
that is, it builds with gfortan and uses the internal copies of blas and
lapack, not the packages. (The task of validating blas and lapack with
gfortran for all uses in ports is beyond my abilities. )
I also patched the regressions to avoid specific test cases with infinite
loops caused by bugs in precision routines as mentioned in the upstream
bug report. The bug doesn't seem to affect most of the test cases.
The key advantage is that octave 3.2.x is vastly quicker than anything
earlier. 10x easily on some array stuff (FDTD calculations).
--John
