Re: compiling gnuplot on Windows & mac/linux

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 12 November 2006 05:51 am, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> I have the following versions installed
>
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60
> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6




>
> Timoth=E9e suggested to take a look into the version of
> automake/autoconf. I also installed SDL and libtool (althogh I have
> no idea what they were used for), and here is what aclocal returns:
>
> /sw/share/aclocal/libtool.m4:25: warning: underquoted definition of
> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>   or see
> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> /sw/share/aclocal/libtool.m4:55: warning: underquoted definition of
> AC_LIBTOOL_SETUP

That has nothing to do with gnuplot.
That is due to some idiotic decision by the packagers of aclocal
to spit out warnings for syntax that will be deprecated in the future.=20
If you had actually followed the link in the warning message, it
would have told you how to get rid of it.

> An this is what I get under Debian:
>
> configure.in:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.in:15: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> configure.in:25: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_C_PROTOTYPES
> configure.in:75: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> configure.in:243: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
>
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

That version of automake is ancient.
Please use 1.9, as you were on your other machine.

> Am I really the only one with installation problems?

On linux, maybe you are :-)
On OSX, there seem to be a number of issues.
Windows, I have no clue about.


=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA