Re: octave plot on Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

[Abbott, Ben]

On May 12, 2013, at 6:54 AM, abdulsamadsyed wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am getting the following errors when i try to use plot command in octave.
> I am using Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3) and i have installed octave 3.4.0
> from dmg. I also have installed XQuarta 2.7.4 and Gnuplot. 
> Can someone please guide me what is the problem here. 
> 
> Note: Earlier i  have tried to install octave using Macports but it took
> almost 12-15 hours in building atlas and still it was not finished.
> 
> 
> Error message is below.
> 
> 
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires
> version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires
> version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71:  1327
> Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}"
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}"
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}"
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}"
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71:  1333
> Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}"
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}"
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}"
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}"
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost

I've switched to the help list.  Notice the part below ...

> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires
> version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0

I haven't seen this before, but appears to be unrelated to Octave.  It appears 
you have X11 installed in two locations.  I recommend you determine which one 
you want and uninstall the other.

Ben