Octave

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:55, Robert Fong-tom wrote:

> As I said in a previous email I am running OS X 10.4.11 on a Intel  
> MacBook Pro. My GNUPLOT was not ported from MacPorts. I was  
> downloaded earlier (before porting Octave). It is one rev behind  
> (ver 4.4 patchlevel 3) current level..
>
> Since GNUPLOT is a dependence of Octave, should this matter that it  
> was not ported via MacPorts?
>
>  If I port GNULOT now from MacPorts will it work automatically with  
> Octave?
>
>  Or do I have to make some changes to the .profile and .bashrc file?

MacPorts is supposed to only use its own software (e.g. its own  
version of gnuplot), not any other version you might already have  
installed. See:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries

As you said, octave declares a dependency on gnuplot. Therefore, if  
you have installed octave with MacPorts, then the MacPorts version of  
gnuplot has already been installed for you. You can verify this by  
checking the list produced by typing:

port installed

I do not know what you have to do to get octave to use that version  
of gnuplot.