Re: Use gnuplot 4.0 with octave 2.1.73

[Johan Ekh]

I use gnuplot-4.0.0-7 and it is a SuSE 10.0 package.
The two files are not linked to each other. In fact they
have never co-existed.

Johan

> On 24-May-2006, Johan Ekh wrote:
>
> | It works with both .gnuplotrc and .gnuplot.
> | I use octave-2.1.71 on a SuSE 10.0 system.
> | I've compiled and installed from sources using
> | the standard,
> |
> |  ./configure
> | make
> | make install
> |
> | sequence. I did this to get the octave-forge package
> | which I could not find on the SuSE mirrors. Should be
> | there somewhere, shouldn't it?
>
> I was asking what version of gnuplot do you have that reads
> .gnuplotrc, not the version of Octave that you have.  The gnuplot
> startup file is read by gnuplot, not Octave.
>
> So what version of gnuplot are you using?  Who built the gnuplot
> binary (did it come from a SuSE package)?  If so, then why did the
> packager decide to redefine the name of the startup file (which as far
> as I can tell from looking at the gnuplot sources is .gnuplot, not
> .gnuplotrc)?
>
> Are you sure that .gnuplot and .gnuplotrc are really separate files on
> your system, or is one a link to the other?
>
> jwe
>