Karim BELABAS on Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:14:45 +0200 (MEST) |
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Re: DYNAMIC_PLOTTING with gnuplot made easy |
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Daniel Duparc wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:45:29 -0400 > Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote: > > > My (wild) guess when looking at gnuterm/term/x11.prm, is that you need > > > gnuplot_x11 to be present in the path, otherwise I don't see how all this can > > > possibly work. > > > > > > Check: I renamed gnuplot_x11, and 'make test' does not work anymore for me > > > either (gnuplot_x11 never was in root's path in any case). If I put it back, > > > it works. > > > > > > So, either skip the x11 test, make it non-fatal (it would be skipped anyway, > > > should DISPLAY not be set) or ask user to fully install gnuplot first. > > > > Yes, having fully installed gnuplot is a requirement for x11 > > plotting... Hmm, but why is something different when not root? > > > > I think that in many distributions of Linux, root has > a $PATH quite different of a normal user's $PATH, > (for security reasons?) Right. As alluded to above ("gnuplot_x11 never was in root's path"), gnuplot_x11 was in /usr/local/bin, which is not in root PATH, whereas it was in mine. Karim. -- Karim Belabas Tel: (+33) (0)1 69 15 57 48 Dép. de Mathematiques, Bat. 425 Fax: (+33) (0)1 69 15 60 19 Université Paris-Sud Email: Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr F-91405 Orsay (France) http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~belabas -- PARI/GP Home Page: http://www.parigp-home.de/