Re: [Plplot-general] Installation Problems OS X 10.3.9 and PLplot 5.5.3

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 On Sunday, September 18, 2005, at 03:47PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:

>On 2005-09-18 14:59-0600 Joe Koski wrote:
>
>> How do I get _plparseopts defined? PLplot 5.5.2 does the same thing. PLplot
>> 5.3.1 builds and installs ok, but is missing the aqt driver.
>
>Thanks for your report. The plparseopts error should be fixed in the CVS
>version so it should be available to you at our next release.  However, we
>have no date fixed for that release as of yet.  There is also the
>possibility of you building from our anonymous read-only cvs version (see
>http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915 for the cvs instructions for
>getting access), but building from that source involves doing lots of
>additional infrastructure work first.  You have to build and install
>particular versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, and swig and run
>cf/bootstrap.sh.  That prepares the tree as in the normal tarball, and you
>can proceed from there with the normal build as per normal, but you may want
>to wait for the next release instead.
>
>Alan

If you are not planning to use Octave you can configure without it (--disable-octave) & then make should work okay. If you are then compiling from the current CVS is a little more work, but not too bad. There is a section in the INSTALL file that describes how to do this for OS-X under the header "Alternative Build Instructions for OS-X". As Alan mentioned, you will need the latest versions of GNU autoconf, automake and libtool, but you don't have to anything re swig.

It is also important that you add the switches --disable-dyndrivers and --disable-f77 when you configure. Objective-C and by extension AquaTerm has some issues with dynamic drivers. I believe that this has been resolved in "Tiger".

-Hazen