Re: compiling on ubuntu 15.10

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

On Wednesday, 21 October, 2015 01:25:40 Karl-Friedrich Ratzsch wrote:
> I just updated my OS, and found the following problems with
> compiling gnuplot:
> 
> 5.0cvs:
> ./configure gives a warning
> 
> 	missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight` option
> 
> 	configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
> 
> seems some of the changes applied to HEAD on 2014-12-16 need to go
> in STABLE, too. Building runs fine afterwards.

But those are non-fatal warnings, right?
You can ignore them.
It probably also complains noisily about configure.in not being
named configure.ac.

> 5.1cvs:
> Building is tripped up by the new "jitter" feature, there are
> undefined references to `jitter`, `jitter_points`, `save_jitter`
> etc. I can provide the full log if necessary.

That sounds like you have not fully updated your cvs copy.
Try:
    cvs update -P 
 
> And, with 5.0 and also HEAD, building --with-qt=qt5 fails with a
> complaint "must build your code with position independent code if Qt
> was built with -reduce-relocations" " Compile your code with -fPIC
> (-fPIE is not enough)"

Again it sounds like your cvs copy is not up to date.
That change went into cvs for both 5.0 and 5.1 several
months ago.

	Ethan

 
> Here
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnuplot5/5.0.1+dfsg1-3
> 
> is ubuntus (i.e. debians) own fix for that.
> 
> 
> Best,
>   Karl
> 
> 
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