Re: [Plplot-devel] My experiences with MacOSX installation

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Friday 23 January 2004 16:03, Don Spong wrote:
|  I tried the latest Plplot snapshot on my Mac OSX system after doing a
|  fresh rebuild/update of my fink directory, g77, etc.  I used Koen van
|  der Drift's suggestions, except that I put the Plplot build into an
|  install directory instead of under fink.  The Fortran examples now
|  work for the first time for me on Mac OSX!  52 postscript files were
|  created when I ran ./plplot-test.sh.
|
|  However, one problem seems to have come back now.  When I run the
|  examples interactively, i.e., select the <1> Xwin option, the plot
|  comes up on a window that I can't control: mouse clicks don't make it
|  go away or go on to the next plot (in the case of multi-page
|  examples).  The only way to get rid of it is to kill the process.

See bellow

|  Here are the steps I took in compiling Plplot:
|
|  export CFLAGS: -Wno-long-double
|  export FLIBS='-L/sw/lib -lfrtbegin -lSystem'
|
|  ./configure
|  --prefix=/Users/spongda/Applications/plplot-5.2.1.rc1.5.3.0_install \
|  FREETYPELIBDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib  FREETYPEINCDIR=/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2
| \ JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.1/Home
| \ --with-pthreads --with-pkg-config
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To avoid the above problem disable pthreads. It is disabled by default because 
of this problem on OSF1 and MacOSX.

Joao


|  make
|  make install
|
|  Is there something I should change to gain control over interactive
| plotting?
|
|  -Thanks, Don