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From: sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Axis labelling with many decimals
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:45:19 -0700
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Dieter Britz wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:32:10 -0700, sfeam wrote:
> 
> [...]
>>> OK, so here is what I did, and what gnuplot said:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> set xrange [0.87845758:0.87845769]
>>> set xtics  0.87845760, 0.00000005, 0.87845770 scale 2, 1 set mxtics 5
>>> set ytics 1.1863, 0.0001, 1.1873 set xtics rotate by 90 right ...
>>> 
>>>          line 0: undefined variable: right
>> 
>> So I take it this is a very old version of gnuplot?
>> If so, the most straightforward solution is to get a newer version.
> 
> OK, so I downloaded the up to date package, untarred it, and I get all
> this:
> 
> 
> aclocal.m4  configure.in   GNUmakefile  Makefile.in     PGPKEYS     term
> BUGS        configure.vms  INSTALL      Makefile.maint  pm3d
> tutorial
> ChangeLog   Copyright      INSTALL.gnu  man             PORTING
> VERSION
> CodeStyle   demo           install-sh   missing         README      win
> config      depcomp        lisp         mkinstalldirs   README.1ST
> config.hin  docs           m4           NEWS            share
> configure   FAQ.pdf        Makefile.am  PATCHLEVEL      src
> 
> Now what do I do? I work under Suse 12.2 Linux. Do I simply
> type in ./install-sh ?

The command in question was introduced some time prior to the release of
gnuplot version 4.6 (January 2012).  A quick search indicates that there are
plenty of SuSE packages for gnuplot 4.6, so you should be fine using one
of those.

If you do want to build from current CVS source, the minimal set of 
commands is
    ./prepare
    ./configure
    make


> Are there any traps, possible missing dependencies etc?

It is likely that the output from ./configure will indicate additional
development packages that would need to be installed in order to include
support for specific terminal types or other features.  In other words,
you need to install many more packages to build gnuplot from source than
you need for simply running a pre-built executable.

	Ethan