Re: ./prepare fails

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 12 March 2005 07:39 pm, Jeff Hagen wrote:
> 
> 	I am trying to install the gnuplot beta so that I can play around with 
> histograms.... I get to the point of running prepare then it fails. It can 
> not find config.guess and config.sub....

Yes.
I have that same problem.
It seems to be a recent autoconf bug.

The work-around is to create empty instances of these files before hand,
and they will be replaced with correct ones.

[1] touch config.guess config.sub
[2] ./prepare
[3] ./configure


Having done this once, you may never have to do it again.
I have run into to this on 3 separate machines, but in each case
only the initial installation was affected.

There is a similar long-standing problem with the way gnuplot's
./configure file tries to initialize the local lisp directories.
I have not been able to figure out a clean way around this.
Best to disable lisp processing with

./configure --without-lisp-files

If you really need the lisp stuff, you may have to dummy up a
couple of files in the appropriate system directories.


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