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

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2005-09-18 16:24-0700 hba...@ma... wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, Hazen, for mentioning --disable-octave.  I agree that is the easiest
solution assuming this user doesn't need the octave interface to PLplot.

Also, to expand on the comment about the swig requirement, swig is only
necessary if you want to build the python and/or java interface to plplot
for a freshly checked out cvs version with no stale files lying around from
previous tarball builds.

Also, note the swig-generated parts of those interfaces are prebuilt and
also all the autotools (autoconf, automake, and libtool) stuff is prebuilt
for the tarball version which is why our tarball users don't need to have
swig or the autotools installed.

Alan
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