Subject: Re: gnuplot 3.7?
To: Greg Evans <raisplin@rcn.com>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/06/1999 23:32:35
check out
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/Packages.txt
if you grabbed afterstep from their ftp site and not through the package
system, that could easily explain the problem.
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Evans wrote:
> on 3/6/99 11:22 PM, Dan McMahill was rumored to have said...
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> >On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Evans wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the suggestion guys....I went searching while I awaited a
> >> response and found the source for it at
> >>
> >> ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot and grabbed it there....hopefully iy will
> >> work, otherwise I will try the pkgsrc way.
> >>
> >
> >actually, you _really_ want to do it the pkgsrc way. Otherwise gnuplot
> >won't get registered when installed and then when you try to build or
> >install the siag package, it will complain that the gnuplot-3.7 package
> >hasn't been installed. The depends stuff in packages only looks at
> >installed packages, not all installed programs (for some good reasons).
> >
> >-Dan
>
> Dan,
>
> Could you explain that for me, I don't understand...I had a problem
> alreayd with afterstep...it _works_ but I can't have jpeg support because
> it couldn't find my jpeg6b library, which I installed with pkg_add, yet
> it found all the other stuff that I had installed that way...I grabbed
> the newest version of afterstep from the afterstep site...does that not
> seem odd?
>
> Greg
>