Re: building with AquaTerm

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 07:12:54 am Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> What happens?
> --------------------
> If I don't install AquaTerm manually, the version provided by MacPorts
> doesn't suffice to compile gnuplot with aquaterm terminal which is
> probably a flaw in gnuplot configuration. Priority number one would be
> to fix that one.

This is not very helpful as a bug report.
What do you mean "doesn't suffice"?
The output from the configure script should indicate what piece
has not been found.  It could be a problem with PATH, or with the
location of a header file, or with something else entirely like a 
required support library that the configure script doesn't allow for.

> All the other libraries (pango, cairo, pdflib, gd, freetype, ...) are
> easily found from MacPorts. Here is what config.log has to say about
> pdf or gd for example:
> 
>     configure:9085: found /opt/local/bin/pdflib-config

That means pdflib comes with a path configuration file.
The configure script executes that file in order to find the
correct -I and -L directories and also a list of required libraries.
So one fix would be for the MacPorts version of aquaterm to also have 
a path configuration file.   

There is a separate, but very similar, mechanism called pkgconfig.
pkgconfig is (at least on linux) how the configuration for cairo
and freetype is found.
So if aquaterm had a *.pc file for pkgconfig, that would also work.