Re: Universal binaries for Mac

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 1/25/07, Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> Please excuse me for jumping in to this list.  I just downloaded
> gnuplot 4.2 rc4 this morning and tried to compile using the
> suggestions from Mojca, but it didn't work.  Since this project is
> about to release a stable version I thought I would chime in.

Please note that I'm a complete newbie on mac and in compiling/making
issues. I managed to create a new terminal, but I don't manage to deal
with compilation/installation issues.

Las tweek I've found the script which does "kind-of-bundling", but
there are quite some problems with it and I have no idea how to do
things properly (I know what I should do, but not how to do that).

Two tiny problems with that script:
- version is not fixed (config/MacOSX/createdist.sh)
- A file /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/.../gnuplot.cfg (with the only
line which sets the font encoding to T1) gets included - the problem
is that if I gave that to someone, he might have TeX installed on
another location (for example: one month ago the default folder was
something else, but people might have fink's tetex or whatever else)

But there are more serious problems, like libraries. If I build
gnuplot with fink, the user who wants to use it need the same fink's
libraries installed to be able to use it. Simply adding "-static"
doesn't help since all the libraries on the system should be build
static and for both architectures I assume.


pdfTeX's svn repository also contain all the needed libraries, so
cross-compiling or building on a system without the needed libraries
is not an issue at all. With gnuplot it's like a nightmare to get all
the libraries properly. On linux distributions that's not a problem,
but on windows and mac it is. I only wish I had the knowledge how to
fix all that.

Without some mac developer who knows what he's doing, things will
never be sorted out properly for that platform. (I would also wish to
have the same kind of help as on windows, but I can't figure out what
flags to set for the compiler, so that gnuplot could launch "proper
help browser" instead of command-line version.)

I'll try to compile gnuplot without fink once I get home to see if I
get that problem. Just a thought: is it possible that "GNU readline"
would fail because the compiler/libraries are not exactly the same as
GNU?
(Sorry, I really don't know much about it, but when I got the computer
and tried to enable colors in "ls", I figured out that I needed the
GNU version of "ls"; the syntax/configuration didn't work with the
version that comes with mac by default - BSD.)

Mojca