Re: gnuplot 4.2 and aquaterm

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

on 10/12/06 11:40 AM, Daniel Farrell at boy...@gm... wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> 
> Thanks for that, this seems quite strange but probably means I'm
> doing something wrong! I just replaced the old version with the new
> developer version (4.2 rc1) in /usr/local/bin and left my system
> configuration the same too. gnuplot 4.2 rc1 gives out the following
> when started:
> 
> set term aqua
>           ^
> ".gnuplot", line 1: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just
> 'set terminal' for a list
> 
> Pretty clear then that my version at least don't know what aqua term
> is! Also, in the 'help set term' documentation aqua is not listed as
> an option.
> 
> I pulled it from cvs, the actually version of is:
> $Revision: 1.16 $, dated $Date: 2006/09/10 10:43:50 $.
> 
> I'm running MacOS 10.4.8 with XCode 2.4 on a 1.5Ghz G4 PPC.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel.
> 
Daniel,

Your config.log should tell you where the configuration script had problems
with aqua. It's probably a misplaced header file or some such.

Joe

> 
> On 12 Oct 2006, at 17:06, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> on 10/12/06 9:01 AM, Daniel Farrell at boy...@gm... wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I have recently need to apply a patch to gnuplot to add some
>>> functionality. I applied it to the developer version of gnuplot
>>> (4.2). However, it seem that the aqua terminal is not an option for
>>> this version. Do you have any advice? Should I apply the patch to the
>>> current release version instead? Or are there some compile options
>>> that I can turn on to make it available?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Daniel.
>>> 
>> Daniel,
>> 
>> AquaTerm works with gnuplot-4.2.rc1 on my G5 Mac built with OS X
>> 10.4.8 and
>> Xcode-2.4 developer tools. I did nothing more than my old
>> configuration for
>> gnuplot-4.0 to build it. All my old gnuplot and octave routines work
>> properly with AquaTerm.
>> 
>> The only issue that I have with AquaTerm is that octave now passes
>> figure
>> numbers via the gnuplot command line, not with set term. This means
>> that all
>> figures are Figure 0 for octave/gnuplot/aqua, which can become
>> confusing
>> when several windows are open. The wxt terminal will have the same
>> issue.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> 
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