Re: Progress on Mac installation cloning

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On 03/03/16 22:36, Thomas Mattison wrote:
> Where/how can I find a list of dependencies that could be
> statically linked into the gnuplot binary on the build machine,
> so I wouldn't have to distribute the libraries?
>
> Where/when do I do the --enable-static and --disable-shared ?
> When building gnuplot?  When (re-)building the libraries?
>
> I'm not sure what you are recommending for cases where
> I can't do a static link.
>
> Are you saying that I should make an /opt/gnuplot directory
> on the build machine, put the required dynamic libraries there,
> and tell the gnuplot build that the libraries are in /opt/gnuplot?
>
> How would I do that?
>
> Then in addition to the rsync of the tree that comes out of
> the gnuplot "make DESTDIR=/tmp/gnuplot install" , I would also
> presumably need to copy the /opt/gnuplot directory onto the
> destination machine.
>
> And your point is that the dynamic libraries in /opt/gnuplot
> are less likely to get clobbered than if they are in their
> "standard" places?
>
>
> On 2016-03-03, at 1:21 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
>
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The conversion on this list is not to top post replies ;)

As I said in my last reply look at ./configure --help

You can set loads of things from there.

If you want to install the /opt/gnuplot/  you have options to do that.

Peter.