Re: building with AquaTerm

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Just to clarify: the author (Per Persson) wants to remove the library
> libaquaterm.dylib, so gnuplot will have to use -framework AquaTerm (as
> opposed to -laquaterm) from now on. This makes quite some points from
> discussion obsolete since the location of Framework is determined with
> switch -F, not -L any more which makes the location of AquaTerm better
> configurable.
>
> New release is planned before end of March, so it would be great if
> this gets fixed in gnuplot's cvs as soon as possible. (One has to
> replace all occurences of "-laquaterm" with "-framework AquaTerm".)

Or rather, with

  "-Wl,-framework -Wl,AquaTerm"

You're not going to endear yourself to gnuplot developers by
describing this change as a "fix" (= remedy for something broken),
when in fact it's a backward-incompatible change to gnuplot
configuration dictated by a (prospective) change to the setup of a
third-party library.

Allin Cottrell