GNUPLOT compilation limitation (?)

[Emmanuel Favre-Nicolin]

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

>>>So, I tryed to compile gnuplot (3.7.3) and it worked well.
>>>The only problem is that with this version, I don't have any
>>>x11 terminal so that gnuplot is not easy to use!
>>>      
>>>
>
>I just do (i) start XWin -multiwindow [if OS is 98 -- omit "start" if OS is
>XP]; then (ii) run rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash; and then (iii) I
>find that I can use gnuplot (3.7.3, like you) with no difficulty at all.
>Without XWin, I wouldn't expect it to work. (I am not clear from what you
>are saying whether you do.) Fergus
>  
>

in fact I wasn't able to compile gnuplot in a way to get the x11 
terminal so that I'm not able to see graphs I'm plotting!
The reason was may be that I did not have X11 libraries and 
developpement headers installed.

Thus I installed XFree86-prog/XFree86-prog-4.3.0-8 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=XFree86-prog/XFree86-prog-4.3.0-8&grep=include%2FX11%2FX.h> 
which should contain that but it does not have changed anything when 
compiling gnuplot 3.8j after installing 
XFree86-prog/XFree86-prog-4.3.0-8 
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=XFree86-prog/XFree86-prog-4.3.0-8&grep=include%2FX11%2FX.h>.

I think XFree 4.3.0 does not work here because when I unistalled XFree 
4.2, I cannot start XFree!
Could be the reason why it's not working?

By the way I don't have the commande ldconfig which may be needed for 
the system to be informed of newly installed librairies?



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