Gnuplot

Installing

Mac Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)

I installed gnuplot with the following configure line:

./configure \
 --prefix=/Users/charles/pkg/gnuplot/4.4.3 \
 --with-readline=/Users/charles/pkg/readline/6.1 \
 --with-texdir=/Users/charles/Library/texmf/tex/latex/gnuplot \
 CFLAGS="-I/Users/charles/pkg/readline/std/include -L/Users/charles/pkg/readline/std/lib"
 CXXFLAGS="-I/Users/charles/pkg/readline/std/include -L/Users/charles/pkg/readline/std/lib"

Errors

"file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked" error

My first attempt at building Gnuplot was using Fink. On my first try, I experienced the following errors due to problems with Fink during the linking process:

ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libncurses.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /System/Library/Frameworks//QuickTime.framework/QuickTime, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
ld: warning: in /usr/lib/libwx_macud-2.8.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libpango-1.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libcairo.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgobject-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgmodule-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libglib-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libintl.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libatk-1.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgio-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
ld: warning: in /fink/lib/libfreetype.dylib, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)

This caused a slew of "undefined symbol" errors:

Undefined symbols:
  "wxFrame::DoGetClientSize(int*, int*) const", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtFramein wxt_gui.o
  "wxApp::GetClassInfo() const", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtAppin wxt_gui.o
  "wxWindow::MacGetLeftBorderSize() const", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtPanelin wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxtConfigDialogin wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxtFramein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxCheckBoxBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxStaticTextBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxSliderBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxButtonBasein wxt_gui.o
  "_pango_layout_set_text", referenced from:
      _gp_cairo_draw_text in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_flush in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_enhanced_finish in gp_cairo.o
      _gp_cairo_set_termvar in gp_cairo.o
  "wxMemoryInputStream::wxMemoryInputStream(void const*, unsigned long)", referenced from:
      wxtApp::LoadPngIcon(unsigned char const*, int, int)in wxt_gui.o
  "wxDialogBase::OnChildFocus(wxChildFocusEvent&)", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtConfigDialogin wxt_gui.o
  "wxAppBase::OnRun()", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtAppin wxt_gui.o
  "_pango_cairo_create_layout", referenced from:
      _gp_cairo_create_layout in gp_cairo.o
  "_wxEVT_COMMAND_BUTTON_CLICKED", referenced from:
      __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)in wxt_gui.o
  "wxWindowBase::DoIsExposed(int, int, int, int) const", referenced from:
      vtable for wxtPanelin wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxtConfigDialogin wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxtFramein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxCheckBoxBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxStaticTextBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxSliderBasein wxt_gui.o
      vtable for wxButtonBasein wxt_gui.o

etc...

This turned out to be a problem with my Fink installation - I had accidentally installed a 32-bit version of Fink on a Snow Leopard operating system, which is 64-bit. Gnuplot then automatically attempted to build a 64-bit version of everything, and ran into problems when linking to 32-bit versions of libraries.

The solution was to rebuild Fink in 64-bit version, which (unfortunately) was time-consuming, as I had already installed a large number of packages. See the Fink page for information on how to build a 64-bit version of Fink.