gnuplot woes

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
wrote:

> To all the folks who responded off list, thanks.  I do know that I could
> install via yum.  Sometimes we want to do things the hard way.  I'm sure
> some of you (probably all of you) can appreciate that.


I used to compile everything from scratch.  Back before RPM, GNU autoconf (&
./configure) and everything was on an NFS'd /usr/local because the system
only had a 400 MB hard drive.

Now I have > 20GB of which I only use 8 GB for the OS.  pkgadd, rpm, dpkg
provide a nice too to inventory and upgrade existing tools that I didn't
have before.

None of the package systems work well with /usr/local on NFS.  And if I
update and NFS /usr/local I can break all the systems at once.

I'll probably end up using yum, but I was wondering how to build it from
> source.  It looks like that will be an exercise for later, when I have
> copious quantities of time.
>

If I'm building packages from scratch, I don't have spare time :-)

Sometimes you do need things built a certain way though.
GNUplot is one of the easier ones



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