Re: Problem with Octave, Gnuplot, Mac 10.7.3

[Alexander Hansen]

On 2/9/12 3:01 PM, Stuart Edwards wrote:
> 
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:18 AM, James R. Hunter wrote:
>> 
>>> I try to run any graphics command from within Octave (3.4.0
>>> 4/21/11 compile from SourceForge). This calls Gnuplot (version
>>> from within the Octave Extras folder) and it results in the
>>> following response:
>>> 
>>> Last login: Thu Feb  9 12:34:28 on ttys000 b1212134:~
>>> jameshunter$ exec
>>> '/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot' 
>>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib 
>>> Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib Reason:
>>> Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires
>>> version 14.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides
>>> version 13.0.0 
>>> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line
>>> 71: 25461 Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}"
>>> GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}"
>>> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}"
>>> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}"
>>> DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}"
>>> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}"
>>> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}"
>>> "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
>>> 
>>> I have tried killing all the files and reloading them from the
>>> dmg. No joy. The problem appears to be with Aquaterm, but I
>>> don't understand it. This problem has only appeared since the
>>> last update of Lion from Apple (10.7.3).  Help?
>> 
>> You'll need to find a new gnuplot app for Lion. You can use one
>> of the popular package managers ...
>> 
>> (1) FInk
>> 
>> http://www.finkproject.org/
>> 
>> (2) MacPorts
>> 
>> http://www.macports.org/
>> 
>> (3) Homebrew
>> 
>> http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
>> 
>> Or you can build and install yourself
>> 
>> http://bhou.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/how-to-install-gnuplot-in-mac-os-x-lion/
>>
>>
>> 
Ben
>> 
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> 
> I have Gnuplot 4.4 from the OS X bundle extras folder running on
> 10.7.2 - seems to work ok with aquaterm.  Did you move it to your
> Applications folder, or just leave it in the Extras folder? - the
> former is correct. You should be able to do:
>> gnuplot
> # gnuplot splash opens
>> plot(sin(x))
> #aquaterm opens and plots a sine wave.
> 
> Stu
> 
> 

It will stop working as soon as you update to 10.7.3, for reasons that
I've detailed elsewhere:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28805743

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/