Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ingo Thies Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: cvs version failed to compile. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:51:49 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <997dh6F71pU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net MiLsDmAhIm0nTz30V/Awqwhb9YdvoFNUHG6zY03D1yp4xkfTQK Cancel-Lock: sha1:4M6dpAo6J/SLOOd1fByy4/64vgU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:488 On 25.07.2011 04:17, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Strange, I've tried to remove emacs on my box, then reinstall the gnuplot > by `sudo make install'. This time I don't meet any error and cann't > reproduce the error I posted in the last post. I have sometimes encountered build errors when just updating a previous CVS version, but succeeded after removing and re-downloading the whole source folder again. Sometimes, however, there is a slight change in some tiny file that causes all the problems on your system. For example, there has been a path change in gnuplot/m4/apple.m4 that made the compilation fail on Mac OS Leopard. However, restoring the older version (prior to July 23) fixed this. Maybe there is an incompatibility with (OK, nowadays a bit over-aged) Leopard that simply has not been seen so far. If you encounter a failure on CVS after it had been working before, it is often helpful to take a look on recent changes (unless you haven't updated for ages). In your case there might as well be some path problem (in brief: gnuplot has to know where to look for emacs if it makes use of it somehow). HTH Ingo