Re: gnuplot on FreeBSD

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Dhiman Barman wrote:
> The following is a summary of what one has to do to hack gnuplot4.1's prepare
> to work on FreeBSD; thanks to Dan Andersen who made it work:

Thanks Dhiman.  I know little about the prepare innards, so I will simply ask questions, for the list not just Dhiman.

> in the script 'prepare':
> 
> change all instances of 'make' with gmake.  Freebsd has it's
> own BSDesque make program.  The makefiles in gnuplot use features
> unavailable in bsd make, so gnu make must be used.

Is gmake something available on all platforms?  Or can the prepare script figure out somehow when to use make vs. gmake?

> 
> work around FreeBSD's choice of naming autoconf and
> automake binaries with version numbers.  You can either modify the
> prepare script directly, or create a ~/bin directory and create symlinks
> like ~/bin/aclocal -> /usr/local/bin/aclocal19

Again, isn't this something that prepare can figure out?

Dan