Compiling gnuplot for OSX

Nick
Feb 9, 2007 at 9:12 AM
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FYI: I was installing octave (handy osx version here) and I needed gnuplot. Someone said that it "just installs" on osx but that's just not true.

OS X, 10.4.8, intel core duo
X11 installed (no idea if that matters, I can use it through term anyway)
Aquaterm

Here's the kicker:

export CFLAGS='-arch i386'
export LDFLAGS='-arch i386'
./configure --with-readline=builtin

Without it, you are lost. Or you'd be getting this error, at least:

/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_remove_history
_rl_forced_update_display
_history_list
_rl_ding
_rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion

It's magic.

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Have you messed around with Fink and FinkCommander? It usually cares care of all the configuration zaniness for you (however, I haven't tested it with a MacTel). I checked and they do have octave packages in their repository.

Fink is great for quick binary installs but the packages aren't always up to date. I've switched over to using DarwinPorts which is an extensive ports tree in the style of freebsd or gentoo. Everything is compiled locally which is more time consuming but you can also have everything optimized for your architecture. "sudo port install gnuplot".

I've tried both Fink and DarwinPorts and have had trouble with both between old packages, uninstalling and just plain broken stuff. This fix was buried somewhere on the goog, I just wanted to give it a more prominent location.

Yeah, the problem I ran into installing Octave using DarwinPorts is that one of the dependencies', SuiteSparse, check sum doesn't validate, stopping installation.

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wow...well I just love math :D Math is fun(especially when im getting A's) I'm going to take AP Calculus this year along with Algebra III w/ Statistics so i might some help. So would anyone help me when it comes down to that?

Compiling gnuplot for OSX

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