Re: Octave won't plot in GNU

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Timothy Field wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently downloaded Octave 3.4.0 and the corresponding newest version of 
> GNU plot on my macbook pro. But I am still unable to plot anything from the 
> plot() command in Octave. I get long error messages such as:
> 
> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires 
> version 14.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires 
> version 14.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71: 58238 
> Trace/BPT trap          GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" 
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" 
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" 
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71: 58234 
> Trace/BPT trap          GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" 
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" 
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" 
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> 
> 
> 
> So I see a lot of "Incompatible library version" errors and I'm not sure what 
> that could be. I've followed some help recently from this and other forums 
> (such as uninstalling both and reinstalling GNU plot first, which I'm not 
> sure if I did correctly, and changing some lines in GNU plot referring to 
> certain libraries to be compatible with OS X as recommended on the official 
> site)
> 
> If you know anything, I'd really appreciate some help. Thank you
> 
> Tim Field | (650)521-6488

Tim,

We've seen this problem reported before and included a fix in the wiki. See the 
section "Install gnuplot & Aquaterm"

        http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle

Ben