Comments on: Install Gnuplot 4.4.0 on Mac OS X

By: Werner

Werner — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:39:24 +0000

Are you sure that the install process went wrong? “Nothing to be done” just means, that in that directory, there is nothing to be installed. Check if gnuplot is in /usr/local/bin and add this to your path:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

add this to your .profile file.

HTH,
WErner

By: Weini

Weini — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:58:19 +0000

Sorry. I didn’t use sudo make install in my last message.
But after I used it, the problem is still there.
Here is the new update.

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot.1 ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1′
make install-data-hook
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-hook’.
Making install in demo
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in tutorial
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in share
Making install in LaTeX
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot” || ../.././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot.cfg gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty ‘/usr/local/usr//usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot’
make install-data-hook
test -n “” || texhash
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/ls-R…
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/ls-R…
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/ls-R…
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R…
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-doc/ls-R…
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/ls-R…
texhash: Done.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.4/app-defaults” || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.4/app-defaults”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Gnuplot ‘/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.4/app-defaults’
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.

By: Weini

Weini — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:55:59 +0000

Hi Werner
I am trying to install gnuplot 4.4.3 in my mac ox 10.5.8.
My gcc is 4.0.1.
(I have gnuplot 4.0.1 in my computer at this moment, but it was installed by someone else some while ago.)
There is error showing up when I use “make install”.
I have gone through all the discussions in this page, and haven’t got any ideas. Would you have a look at my problem?
evoltheo013:gnuplot-4.4.3 huangadmin$ make install
Making install in config
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in m4
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in term
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.4/js” || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.4/js”
mkdir: /usr/local/share/gnuplot: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-jsDATA] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

By: Werner

Werner — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:50:32 +0000

Hi Jan, there might be problems with 32bit and 64bit builds. GTK is definitely 32bit and gcc on Mac OS X 10.7 is automatically 64bit. You should run the configure command with the “-arch i386″ option, which should tell the configure script to compile everything 32bit. I’ll look into this issue and write a new blog entry if necessary.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:05:53 +0000

Hi, Werner,

I’m trying to install the gnu plot under lion 10.7.1. I have Xcode 4.1
I get the exact error as Floyd in the first comment.
I commented out the .profile file but still the same error.
This is my .profile file:
##
# DELUXE-USR-LOCAL-BIN-INSERT
# (do not remove this comment)
##
#echo $PATH | grep -q -s “/usr/local/bin”
#if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
# PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
# export PATH
#fi
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin:$PATH

Can you help?

By: wefang

wefang — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:05:33 +0000

super useful, thanks!

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:50:26 +0000

Thanks for the straightforward and clear instructions!

A point I’d love to see clarified:

“3. (Re)start Terminal.app and see if pkg-config cairo –libs works.”

What does “works” mean here? It returns

“-L/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/lib -lcairo”

is this good, bad, good enough?

I guess I’ll continue with the installation and see if it goes smoothly or dies horribly! (-:

Thanks again,
-Vijay

By: Batsirai

Batsirai — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:08:46 +0000

Thanks a lot Werner. I had the same problem that Floyd Maseda had and I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly.

By: Sime

Sime — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:42:20 +0000

Werner, thank you for your detailed instructions how to install gnuplot under OSX 10.6. The only think that didn’t work was adding “export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin:$PATH” into my .profile file. But adding it to my .bash_profile file made everything work nicely.
By the way, I dowloaded and installed gnuplot 4.4.2 with apropriate changes for tar and cd commands. (MacBook Pro, OSX 10.6.5)
Hope this might be isefull to somebody,
Sime

By: Werner

Werner — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:09:54 +0000

Hi Kristen,

in you .profile should be the following line

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

restart the terminal and /usr/local/bin is in your path. You can check that with the terminal command “env”.

HTH,
Werner