Re: 5.2 rc2: new text for INSTALL

[Jim M. <jm...@ro...>]

INSTALL currently contains

Ubuntu:
         ./configure fails to find lua support because Ubuntu packages it as
         "lua5.1" rather than "lua".  You can fix this by adding a symlink
         prior to running ./configure
             ln -s /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua5.1.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc

Installation on linux mint mate 18.2 (based on Ubuntu 16.04) did not 
require this link.

For older 64 bit systems this should be changed to (update "5.1" to 
current version):
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/lua5.1.pc 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/lua.pc





On 07/13/2017 04:48 PM, Ethan A Merritt via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> On Friday, 14 July, 2017 07:36:26 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>> 6) Any other known issues?
>>>
>>>      Ethan
>>>
>> This is not an issue but documentation problem for source distribution.
>> In source distribution, there is a file named "INSTALL".
>> It is well written but some parts are obsoleted or inadequate.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> 1.
>> Unix, configure
>> ---------------
>>      
>> TERMLIBS="-lX11" ./configure
>> is required for wxwidgets but is not described
>>
>> 2.
>> MS-Windows
>> ----------
>>
>> There's no installer for gnuplot, so if you want a desktop link,
>> program manager group or an association of *.plt or *.gpl files to
>> wgnuplot, you'll have to do all that yourself.
>>
>> The gnuplot for windows has installer now.
>>
>>
>> *********************
>> There are much points which are not up-to-date.
> Good point.
> The FAQ, the man page, and the LaTeX tutorial are even more out of date.
> Contributions are welcome for all of these.
>
> The same is true for the web site.
> The front page is not bad, but the linked pages are getting stale.
>
>
>> Is it better open a bug ticket for "INSTALL" being up-to-date?
> A bug ticket is less useful than a patch containing new text.
> Or contribute new text by posting it here on the mailing list.
>
> 	Ethan
>
>
>
>> Tatsuro
>
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