Re: [Gnuplot-info] gnuplot configure/make issues

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Did you try  --with-readline=builtin ?

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:11:39 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Menten <pcm...@ya...> wrote:

> I ran into some issues with configuring and compiling gnuplot 4.4.2 on RedHat Linux. 
> 
> 
> Here is the output of a 'uname -a' command;
> 
> Linux xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.com 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 
> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> First issue was the need to install the libgd libraries.
> 
> 
> 
> Second issue was the 'configure' script was choking during the process 
> of detecting the proper parameters for the 'readline' calls. Although it
>  was properly detecting which calls were supported, the makefile options
>  that it detected were immediately overwritten by a recursive call that 
> was testing the readline.h file. 
> 
> In particular, the make file option 
> -lncurses was overwritten, but any of ncurses curses termcap terminfo or
>  termlib types would not have been properly configured in the makefile.
> 
> 
> 
> The failure to find the ncurses option/switch resulted in a build error 
> with an output like;
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
> 
> 
> 
> And, if that weren't enough, subsequent 'configure' tests for libraries 
> such as the compression library 'libz' would fail because of the 
> previous failure to properly configure the readline libraries.
> 
> 
> 
> My workaround was to hard-code the '-lncurses' switch into the configure
>  script after its test for readline.h.
> 
> 
> 
> Third issue was  the configure script's call into the libgd script, 
> gdlib-config --libs, that provides the compile options. The gdlib-config
>  includes a macro @LIBICONV@, intended to point to the double-byte 
> language conversion libraries. That definition of that macro does not 
> exist in my RedHat linux system, so it gets passed verbatim into the 
> configure script, which causes yet another failure. I modified the 
> gdlib-config script to remove that macro.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps somebody.
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
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