Re: Problem with Libplot

[Michel Boaventura]

I've downloaded the last version on git repository, and ran
autogen.sh. With this the problem disapear.
But on the ben's snapshot it still happens.


2009/2/2 John Darrington <address@hidden>:
> I suggest that we check in this patch into the stable branch.
>
> J'
>
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:03:30PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>     It is a bug in the configure script.  The plotutils manual
>     mentions that -lpng -lz might be necessary, but we don't check
>     for it.
>
>     Do you want to file a bug report?  It would be helpful.
>
>     The plotutils description of how to link against it is awfully
>     complicated:
>
>            To link your application with GNU `libplot', you would use the
>         appropriate `-l' option(s) on the command line when compiling it.  You
>         would use
>
>              -lplot -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lpng -lz -lm
>
>         or, in recent releases of the X Window System,
>
>              -lplot -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lpng -lz -lm
>
>         These linking options assume that your version of `libplot' has been
>         compiled with PNG support; if not, you would omit the `-lpng -lz'
>         options.
>
>            As an alternative to the preceding, you may need to use `-lplot 
> -lXm
>         -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lpng -lz -lm', `-lplot -lXm -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lpng
>         -lz -lm -lc -lgen', or `-lplot -lXm -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lpng -lz -lm 
> -lc
>         -lPW', on systems that provide Motif widgets instead of Athena 
> widgets.
>         In recent releases of the X Window System, you would insert `-lSM
>         -lICE'.  Recent releases of Motif require `-lXp' and possibly `-lXpm'
>         as well.)
>
>            On some platforms, the directories in which `libplot' or the other
>         libraries are stored must be specified on the command line.
>         For example, the options `-lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11',
>         which specify X Window System libraries, may need to be preceded by an
>         option like `-L/usr/X11/lib'.
>
>
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