Re: [Plplot-general] PLPlot 5.7.2 install on Mac OS X Intel (Clarification)

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On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:31 PM, David Andrews wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to move a bunch of my code over to plplot from pgplot,
> mainly to use its 3d stuff.  I'm having trouble installing though, and
> there seems to be several conflicting methods suggested for doing so
> (plain ol configure / make / make install , cmake and fink).
> Fink fails due to dependency on g77, which I have installed from
> another source (hpc.sourceforge.net), make complains about various
> libraries, specifically some undefined objective C types i think, and
> cmake sounded very much more complex.

cmake is different, but is no more complex than configure / make /  
make install. It is generally a lot faster and ccmake is a very hand  
interface for configuring your installation.

> Ideally, i'd like to be able to use plplot with aquaterm, and they
> suggest installing via fink, so is the best approach?

Normally fink should work to install PLplot-5.6.1, but it sounds like  
you are having trouble with g77? You might try using fink to install  
fink's g77, then make sure that this is the one that will be used by  
default (i.e. "which g77" returns /sw/?/g77 rather than say /usr/ 
local/bin/g77).

Fink is the simplest approach when it works.

-Hazen