Re: Suggestions for gnuplot FAQ

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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:21:06 +0100, Ethan Merritt  
<merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

>> I did see references in the FAQ about libgd supporting
>> png, but nothing that says how to link the 2.  Does it just happen
>> automagically?
> Yes. The first step in installing from source is to run the "configure"
> script. This will automagically search your computer for support  
> libraries
> for all the possible terminals, and automagically use the ones it can
> find.

No magic involved, just documented methods.

if you read the output of ./configure it will say: "I am building with  
..... for more detail run configure -h" or words to that effect.

If you explicitly request png support then it will fail to find the  
required files and tell you before stopping the build process.

If you use the Suse package management tools to search for libgd you will  
almost certainly find you dont have the devel package as Ethan suggested.

If you try gnuplot-devel I guess it would pull all the deps you require  
for you.

Once you have it building the suse release of gnuplot from source you  
should be able to build cvs gnuplot.

But it's not the function of gnuplot doc to explain how to use your binary  
distro packages. That's why you dont find that info there.

If you read INSTALL and the output of ./configure you would find the info  
you need.

FAQs are just FAQs , dont expect them to cover everything.

regards/