Re: [Gnuplot-info] Building gnuplot 6.0.0 on Linux Mint

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

FWIW: I have filed a bug report on the Ubuntu package site about the 
missing pkg-config files. Will post any response I get.

P.


On 18/05/2024 05:35, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Since I went to the trouble of installing Linux Mint, here is a (final?) report
> on building gnuplot 6.0.0 for Mint 21.3 Virginia
>
> The Qt6  *.dev packages for Mint are defective; they are missing files
> needed to build applications against Qt6.   Please take that up with Mint.
> So far as I can see (but I did not actually install + build) the necessary files
> are present in the upstream Debian packages they are derived from.
> What went wrong between those two endpoints? I don't know.
>
> Qt5, however, works fine.  I was able to configure + build gnuplot with
>
> $ apt install libqt5*dev qttools5-dev-tools
> $ ./configure --with-qt=qt5
> $ make
>
> For completeness, to add the cairo terminals, wxt, and lua/tikz
>
> $ apt install libcairo-dev libpango1.0-dev
> $ apt install libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libgl-dev
> $ apt install lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev
>
> The resulting executable passed the "make check" test of running
> the demo collection.
>
> So I think the bottom line is that gnuplot's configure script is OK,
> but Mint 21.3 does not provide a working devel package set for Qt6.
> I did not go the the trouble of installing a full TeX distribution, so
> I could not test the tikz terminal output or regeneration of the
> full documentation set.
>
>       Ethan
>
>