Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot-4.2.4-3 build fails

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:14 PM, David Phillips wrote:

>
>
> I just ran fink selfupdate and update-all and fink tried to rebuild
> gnuplot. It failed with the link error I've included below. Let me
> know if there's any more information I can provide.   Thanks as always
> for all the great work you folk do.
>      David
>
>
> g++  -g -O2 -I/sw/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8 -I/sw/
> include/wx-2.8 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -D__WXGTK__ -fno-
> rtti  -I/sw/lib/pango-ft219/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/
> include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include/freetype2 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/
> include -I/sw/include/libpng12 -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/pixman-1 - 
> I/
> sw/include/glib-2.0 -I/sw/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/sw/include/cairo -I/
> usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11/include -I/sw/lib/pango-ft219/include/
> pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include/
> freetype2 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/include/glib-2.0 -I/sw/
> lib/glib-2.0/include -I/sw/include/libpng12 -I/sw/include -I/sw/
> include/pixman-1 -I/sw/include/cairo -I/sw/include/gtk-2.0 -I/sw/
> include/atk-1.0 -I/sw/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/
> X11/include  -L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -
> Wl,-framework,CoreServices -Wl,-framework,ApplicationServices -L/sw/
> lib -L/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/sw/lib/
> fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib -o gnuplot alloc.o axis.o breaders.o
> bitmap.o color.o command.o contour.o datafile.o dynarray.o eval.o
> fit.o gadgets.o getcolor.o graph3d.o graphics.o help.o hidden3d.o
> history.o internal.o interpol.o matrix.o misc.o mouse.o parse.o plot.o
> plot2d.o plot3d.o pm3d.o readline.o save.o scanner.o set.o show.o
> specfun.o standard.o stdfn.o tables.o term.o time.o unset.o util.o
> util3d.o variable.o version.o  gp_cairo.o wxt_gui.o -lplot -lcurses -
> ledit -lggi  -lz -lgd -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -
> lpng12 -lz /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib -lpdf -L/usr/X11R6/lib -R/usr/X11R6/
> lib -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -L/sw/lib  -L/sw/lib/gtk-2.0 -L/sw/
> lib/gstreamer-0.10 -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib
> -L/sw/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L/sw/lib -framework IOKit -framework
> CoreServices -framework System -framework ApplicationServices  -
> lwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8 -
> lwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_html-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8 -
> lwx_gtk2u_core-2.8 -lwx_baseu_xml-2.8 -lwx_baseu_net-2.8 -
> lwx_baseu-2.8  -L/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib -L/sw/lib -lpangocairo-1.0 -
> lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -L/ 
> sw/
> lib/pango-ft219/lib -L/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib/freetype219/
> lib -L/sw/lib -Wl,-framework,CoreServices -Wl,-
> framework,ApplicationServices -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -
> lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -
> lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -
> lglib-2.0 -lintl -laquaterm  -framework Foundation
> Undefined symbols:
>   "_write_history_n", referenced from:
>       _wrapper_for_write_history in plot.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [gnuplot] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.1.mpQylZ failed, exit code 2
> Removing runtime build-lock...
> Removing build-lock package...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.2.4-3
> (Reading database ... 102769 files and directories currently  
> installed.)
> Removing fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.2.4-3 ...
> Failed: phase compiling: gnuplot-4.2.4-3 failed
>

I'm not 100% sure why this happens

The successful workaround I used was to try building gnuplot-nogtk and  
then building gnuplot.  It worked, but I can't think of a good reason  
for that.