5.4.0: Mac OS X version available

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

Dear Ethan et al.,

A Mac OS X package for version 5.4.0 is now available at
https://csml-wiki.northwestern.edu/index.php/Binary_versions_of_Gnuplot_for_OS_X

If you encounter any problem, please let me know.

There is one small compilation issue that *seems* to be due to the way that
src/Makefile is constructed. On the more recent versions of OS X, the X11
libraries and header files are in /opt/X11, which ./configure does not
detect. This is fine, since I can use the options '--x-include=/opt/X11/include
--x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib' to specify this. However, the X11 library
location does not get used in the compilation of gnuplot (only for
gnuplot_x11, via the XLIBS variable), even though the main executable needs
the Xpm library. Manually adding -L/opt/X11/lib to LDFLAGS in src/Makefile
fixes this, but should not be necessary.

Regards,

Erik


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:28 PM Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote:

> Gnuplot version 5.4 - first release
>
> I have placed a source tarball for 5.4 on SourceForge
>
>
> https://sf.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/5.4.0/gnuplot-5.4.0.tar.gz
>
> Release Notes with new feature list
>
>    http://gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_5_4.html
>
> Version 5.4.0 is the start of a new "major release" series.
> It supersedes version 5.2, first released in September 2017.
>
> I realize that there may be unresolved issues with building Windows
> binaries
> for Windows 10, but I decided that it is not reasonable to hold up release
> any
> longer for issues that appear to be more related to system configuration
> than to
> the gnuplot source.  If necessary we can put out a Windows-specific
> patchlevel 1.
> As always, I am totally reliant on and extremely grateful to the volunteers
> who put together Windows binaries from a source release package.
>
>         cheers, and happy plotting
>
>                 Ethan
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