Re: Mac OSX 10.6.5 update

[WP Becker]

I filed a bug report with apple because *they* are what changed causing Gnuplot 
to break.

This is their response:

> Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the 
> following information: 
> 
> Try not setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.  That is causing the load of an external / 
> older / incompatible libfreetype.6.dylib rather than our provided 
> libfreetype.6.dylib
> 
> We consider this issue closed.  If you have any questions or concern 
> regarding this issue, please update your report directly 
> (http://bugreport.apple.com).
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to notify us of this issue.
> 


Now, *who* has responsibility for getting it fixed?


On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:27, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> I have no idea where the binary came from.  I was simply replying to the 
> previous posts (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/32967 
> and http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/32963). You will 
> have to ask the original posters (Alastair and WP Becker) for more details.
> 
> After 10.6.5 was released, I received a bug report on this topic, so I did a 
> google search for "Reason: Incompatible library version: 
> libfontconfig.1.dylib requires version 13.0.0 or later, but 
> libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 10.0.0" in order to respond to blogs / 
> mailing lists with relevant/helpful information.
> 
> If this is not the correct list for GnuPlot, then hopefully you can pass 
> along this information to whomever packaged up the broken Gnuplot.app
>