Re: Progress on Mac installation cloning

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 3 March 2016 at 21:56, Thomas Mattison wrote:
>
> So the lesson is that Aquaterm needs to be on the build machine before the build.

Yes. You need all dependencies present on the machine where you build
gnuplot (and all those dependencies have to be either included as
static libraries or have to be present on the destination).

> Any idea what is going on, or advice?

I'm not sure how exactly you installed the libraries.

If you want to do this properly, you should better build all the
dependencies yourself, ideally as static libraries. And you need to
know which files exactly to copy to the destination machine (so that
gnuplot keeps working). Again, do yourself and your students a favour
and install the libraries to /opt/gnuplot rather than /usr/local.
Please. You should set ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnuplot for every
dependency. And probably something like --enable-static
--disable-shared. Just make the final symlink from
/usr/local/bin/gnuplot to /opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot. If you'll install
things to /usr/local, students will sooner or later run into troubles.
(Let's say that your colleague [or some other project that can be
downloaded from web] comes to a similar idea and decides to offer
students some other software compiled in the same way using a
different version of one of the same libraries. Then gnuplot would
stop working or start crashing if both scripts install to the same
location.)

If you have your dynamic libraries installed at
    /Users/mattison/anaconda/include/freetype2
then gnuplot most likely won't work unless your students install the
files to exactly the same location (or if you set up everything very
very carefully and properly and run install_name_tool to change
location of libraries).

Mojca