Congratulations and some Mac-related results (was Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...)

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 10/1/06 3:45 PM, Ethan A Merritt at merritt@u.washington.edu wrote:

> On Sunday 01 October 2006 08:35 am, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
>>=20
>> I'll also put up a release candidate source tarball on SF.net (in the
>> "gnuplot-current" subproject of the file release system).
>=20
> Great!
> Please join me in toasting this milestone. Your choice of beer or champag=
ne.
>=20
> I have copied the same tarball to
>   http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/development/binaries/
> since several places in the documentation and web site direct people
> to that URL.
>=20
> I have started to update the web pages on SourceForge as well.
> Are the mirror sites automatic, or does someone have to copy stuff
> over manually?
> =20
> --=20
> Ethan A Merritt
> Biomolecular Structure Center
> University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Congratulations all around. My Mac G5 build of gnuplot-4.2 seems to be
working properly, with only a couple of minor problems (more below). This i=
s
for OS X 10.4.8 with the Xcode-2.4 developer tools.

None of the problems reported with the gamma function for the Intel Macs
surfaced on my G5 during the build. The configure script found gamma, lgamm=
a
and signgam without problems. Both gamma and lgamma plot correctly in
gnuplot-4.2.

The only problems are apparently related to the documentation via LaTeX,
because my installation of gnuplot-4.2 seems to be working correctly.

The final part of "make install" is as follows

<snip>
test -z "/Tools/gnuplot-4.2/usr/local/man/man1" || /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs
"/Tools/gnuplot-4.2/usr/local/man/man1"
mkdir /Tools/gnuplot-4.2/usr/local/man
mkdir /Tools/gnuplot-4.2/usr/local/man/man1
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './gnuplot.1'
'/Tools/gnuplot-4.2/usr/local/man/man1/gnuplot.1'
make  install-data-hook
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-hook'.
Making install in demo
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
Making install in tutorial
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
Making install in share
Making install in LaTeX
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make  install-data-hook
/bin/sh: line 1: kpsexpand: command not found
/bin/sh: line 1: texhash: command not found
make[4]: *** [install-cfg] Error 127
make[3]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
Joe-Koskis-Computer:/Tools/gnuplot-4.2.rc1 jakoski$

But as I said, the installation seems to be working. Simply bypassing the
LaTex stuff on Macs would be the easy fix. I think octave already does that=
.

Joe