Re: gnuplot works - and now I know why

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Thomas Treichl <address@hidden> wrote:
>Dushan Mitrovich schrieb:
> > Hi Thomas
> >
> > Thank for sending the file and detailed instructions.  I finally got a
> > chance to try them out.  The upshot is that theye didn't have the desired
> > results.  Here is a copy of the Terminal session (the line beginning with
> > '+++' is my inserted comment):
> >
> > --------------- begin Terminal session ---------------
> > Last login: Fri Mar 21 08:33:21 on console
> > Welcome to Darwin!
> >
> > [~]$
> > => cd /tmp
> >
> > [/tmp]$
> > => tar -xzf deps.tgz
> >
> > [/tmp]$
> > => ll
> > total 800
> > -rw-r--r--   1 dushanm  wheel         0 Mar 21 09:38 cs_cache_lock_501
> > -rw-r--r--   1 dushanm  dushanm  404889 Mar 22 10:48 deps.tgz
> > drwxr-xr-x   7 dushanm  wheel       238 Mar 22 04:05 gnuplot-i386/
> > -rw-------   1 dushanm  wheel      1179 Mar 20 15:23 qt_temp.WYb4cz
> >
> > [/tmp]$
> > => GNUTERM=aqua /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot
> >
> >         G N U P L O T
> >         Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
> >         last modified 31 Aug 2007
> >         System: Darwin 8.11.1
> >
> >         Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007
> >         Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
> >
> >         Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
> >         The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
> >
> >         Send bug reports and suggestions to
> >             <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot>
> >
> >
> > Terminal type set to 'aqua'
> > gnuplot> plot sin(x)/x
> > +++ no plot window appears, and no error messages
> > gnuplot> GNUTERM=aqua DISPLAY= 
> > /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/
> >              undefined variable: aqua
> >
> > gnuplot> GNUTERM=aqua DISPLAY=:0.0 
> > /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/
> >              undefined variable: aqua
> >
> > gnuplot> quit
> > --------------- end Terminal session ---------------
>
> All three calls look good to me.  If GNUTERM=aqua then DISPLAY shouldn't
> be set (cf.  Gnuplot manual) - that's where the errors come from - so
> absolutely correct.
> 
> 
> > This is the same behavior I had been seeing earlier.
> >
> > I also tried another experiment.  This is a clean install of X.4.11, and
> > no separate install of AquaTerm was made - separate, that is, from what
> > is included with Gnuplot.app.  The results were also negative, as I had
> > learned to expect by now:
> >
> > I invoked the PropertyListEditor on the file '.MacOSX/environment.plist'
> > and changed the value of the variable 'GNUTERM' (the only one) from 'x11'
> > to 'aqua'.  Then I logged out and back in, and tried to open Gnuplot.app
> > in /Applications.  The only thing that happened is that the gnuplot icon
> > appeared in the Dock, then immediately disappeared.
>
> This also is okay, this is part of my selfmade startup script (cf. below)
> - necessary if somebody wants to open two Gnuplot.apps at the same time.
> 
> 
> > When I changed 'aqua' back to 'x11' and did a logout/login, gnuplot
> > works and plots again as before, using an X11 window.
>
> Yes ok.
>
>
> > Can your suggest of a more detailed way for us to compare our system
> > configurations, to figure out what the critical difference is?
>
> I expect no, I'm very very sorry, as long as I can't reproduce the prob-
> lem and don't know why no figure window is opened.  I'm currently also
> searching in the dark - my last idea was that AquaTerm.framework is not
> opened correctly, that's why putting another one into /tmp/gnuplot-i386/
> (which is the path where I put all libs before packing Gnuplot.app).  If
> you want to do some more tests then also have a look at the shell script
> 
>    /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot
> 
> with a normal text editor (this is the startup script for gnuplot resp.
> Gnuplot.app if you call it from command line - like we did above).

Okay, I will do that and see if any ideas occur to me.

> Maybe (but this also is just an idea and nothing more) it has to do with
> 10.4.11?!  I personally am working on a 10.4.9 machine but won't upgrade
> to a newer version.

When I get everything settled here I expect to have an external hard disk
available on which I can make a clean install of X.4.9.  Then I can try
the same experiments and see if the results are any different.  Is your
machine a PPC or an Intel?
 
> Finally, I somewhen already had an AquaTerm discussion at OctaveForge -
> but this was a bit different, here is the link where you can read all
> about it, maybe you get some more ideas about what to try
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810331&group_id=2888&atid=102888
> 
> Let me know if I can help somehow
 
Thanks, Thomas, for your help and for this URL.  I will look at it and
keep experimenting, reporting anything interesting I discover.

- Dushan