From: Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu> - 2006-09-27 19:14:24
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On Wednesday 27 September 2006 10:21 am, Chris Monson wrote: > On 9/27/06, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:43 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote: > > > > > I'd say this needs to be addressed before 4.2 release. > > > > Nah. This is just one more oddity that an OSX packager would > > have to sort out when building a binary distribution. Once the > > user is up and running there is no problem at all. > > Is the fink distribution the proper place for this issue, then? I'm going to have to throw up my hands at this point. I'm not a Mac person, and I don't know who/where to send such a report. From the various reports on this thread it seems that the problem is present only on some Macs, or only some versions of OSX, or I don't know what-all variant installed libraries. If somebody associated with fink, or Darwin, or some other OSX developers resource can provide a definitive answer then fine. But I fear if we were to blindly 'fix' the build process to work on Chris's machine, we would risk breaking it on other machines. The safest immediate solution may be to provide an entry under "Known Problems" somewhere in the installation docs, warning would-be OSX packagers to check that gamma works, and tell them to force gnuplot to use its built-in gamma function if the build process fails to find an appropriate gamma function from the system libraries. Longer term, the documentation of tgamma() suggests that if it is present at all on any system, then it can safely be used. But I don't want to make such a change prior to 4.2 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle WA |